Zen and the Motorcycle

So, I started reading Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance today.

It is an interesting so far and of impact to me because of the whole father-son relationship.  I have been spending a lot of time in the last few weeks being the primary caregiver to my son and we are certainly developing a certain rhythm to our days.

Anyhow, want I found interesting was Pirsig's use of the term Chautauqua, which looking on the interwebs was an adult education movement founded in the United States and popular during the turn of the century (the previous one).  The ones Pirsig refers to seem to be of a travelling variety, going from town to town, dispensing their knowledge.  And this is the sort that Pirsig emulates with his attempts to reconstruct his old personality of Phaedrus and in his teachings on different subjects.

I will continue to work through the book and see where it takes me but this Chautauqua idea is interesting and can be put down as the new thing I learned today.