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Here are sites with some resources - see links below, please.
The third link has an interview (November 9, 2006) with Pirsig - maybe his last. He's 78 years old now.
Here's a sample:
"Pirsig doesn't do interviews, as a rule; he claims this one will be his last.
He still sails. He lives in rural New England and has just been up to the islands of Maine with his wife on the same boat that he describes in Lila - perfectly maintained, of course. He lives these days in cyberspace, he says, where his ideas circulate. He plans to learn to tango, and visit Buenos Aires. He's just discovered YouTube. He doesn't write any more, though, and he hardly reads. I wonder if that old depression ever returns?

'I've been hit with it lately,' he says. 'It did not seem related to my life in any way. I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell. But I did for the first time go to a psychiatrist. He said it's a chemical imbalance and he prescribed some pills and the depression has gone.'

Otherwise, he says, he tries to live as best he can to the dictates of 'his dharma': to stay centred. I ask if he fears death.

'I'm not depressed about it,' he says. 'If you read the 101 Zen Stories you will see that is characteristic. I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. Up until my first book was published I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: No, I didn't screw up.'

He smiles. 'It was just that I was listening to a different drummer all along.'"

2006-12-17 01:46:19 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0 0

He wrote one other book in 1991, called Lila: An Inquiry into Morals. In it, he expounds on his concept of Quality. He has kind of disappeared since that time.

2006-12-17 09:35:15 · answer #2 · answered by senlin 7 · 0 0

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