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- <text id=91TT0097>
- <title>
- Jan. 14, 1991: Return Of The Truth Seeker
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Jan. 14, 1991 Breast Cancer
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 11
- Return of the Truth Seeker
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
- </p>
- <p> More than 2 million people bought the 1974 book Zen and the
- Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, in which author Robert Pirsig
- discoursed on philosophy, the psyche and values. After a
- 16-year silence, Pirsig has now turned in the manuscript for
- a follow-up that could reach booksellers by autumn. His
- publisher, Morrow, has gambled an estimated $2.3 million
- advance that many of the readers touched by the first work
- would rush to buy the second. In Lila, Pirsig chronicles a
- journey undertaken by Phaedrus, whom readers may recognize as
- Pirsig's alter ego in the earlier book. Phaedrus meets Lila in
- a bar and takes a sailboat ride with her up the Hudson River.
- Pirsig's agent describes the journey as a search for the
- "metaphysics of quality."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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