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...American Romantics he bemoans the predicament of manufactured man and extolls "self-reliance" and "gumption" and the kind of knowledge that is not to be found in books but only at the cutting edge of experience. But Pirsig also recognizes that "self-reliance" has become the philosophy of American greed and reaction and that the familiar Romantic exhortations about experience and immediacy do not penetrate very far into technology nor into its scientific underpinning. For him the problem is that these two realms of knowledge stand opposed. The "scientific method" for all its contributions to modern life remains "emotionally hollow...
...Harvard Square, most surviving art, like most coffee, is big business. Many art galleries just can't make it. And the ones that do often find that success depends on selling out to supporters, greed or just plain bad taste...
...writes a love story as passionate as it is asexual. Old age, she suggests, is a wicked spell cast upon lovers and life lovers, and she stocks her story with appropriate witches and ogres-a Lesbian nurse concealing a record as an abortionist, a nursing-home manager smarmy with greed and Bible-Belt piety...
...mythological-as Scottish golfing champions themselves. It is rumored that golf is less "a thing of the spirit" than it once was. Given such commercial-calamitous times, golfers and nongolfers alike must swiftly turn for solace to The Oldest Member. Who better than Wodehouse can guard against creeping greed and gallopping solemnity, on the page or on the fairway...
...works up a mannered creature with bulging eyes and squeaking voice who never suggests Daisy's strength, her greed, or even her gaiety and charm...