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in down Quality any more than any other seeker has pinned down the essence of life, by whatever name they call it.

The author begins with the unknown, and with a liking for that unknown: "I'm happy to be riding into this country. It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that" (3). By the end of the book, after a journey across the country and through the self and the history of thought, Pirsig has indeed articulated no rational, philosophic system to make clear sense of this unknown. On the heels of his son's death, he can sa

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