Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Hayakawa Bunko NF, Volume I, 2008
About this book
A novelistic work of nonfiction that layers a father-and-son motorcycle journey across America with maintenance, Zen, Greek philosophy, and an inquiry into Quality. It does not place technology and people, or reason and feeling, in separate domains; it questions that split itself.
What stayed with me
I keep it in this curation because it presents tools not as possessions but as things with which we form a relationship through care. Writing about a product's history and use on tkgshn is also closer to recording that relationship than to listing specifications.