Mechanics for the Mind

I'm just starting chapter 3 of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and I'm liking it so far again after approx. 30 years. It's a real period piece for one thing. It reads like 'an old fashioned book' (to quote Gordie Lightfoot). Pirsig is earnestly quizzical and tonally 'front porch'. So far, I've learned a little bit about mechanics and a little bit about the journey that he's taking us on. What's happening right now is the backstory. He's drawing a little circle and then drawing on the drawing. He's trying to pinpoint a problem by showing how it's manifesting itself in his two friends and then how he overcame the problem prior to our meeting him in this book and on this trip. The deliberateness of the writing and the storytelling is mirrored in the deliberateness that he advocates in the relationship that one needs to have to a motorcycle. You are the motorcycle but he hasn't really started to talk about that yet. It's kind of quaint and funny to hear him talk about 'technology' and how overwhelming it is. He ain't seen nothin' yet! But I'm on his 1970s ride and interested to see where it will take me at this point. It's fun to read a book again like this...