I have just finished reading “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” for, I think, the third or fourth time. The book, subtitled, “An Inquiry into Values”, has little to do the motorcycle maintenance other than in an allegorical sense but rather explores the journey of the author Robert Pirsig in pursuit of understanding the meaning of “Quality” against the background of a two week motorcycle trip across America from Minneapolis to San Francisco. The author of this unique book and best seller over the last forty years was committed to a mental institution earlier in his life, probably with a form of catatonic schizophrenia and subjected to electro-convulsive therapy…