Today, while doing a bit of stacks maintenance work, I came across a curious, at least to me, juxtaposition of books. From left to right I found: The First John Ford, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and John D. Rockefeller's Secret Weapon. Having not read Pirsig's book, I can't say for sure that it has nothing in common with either of those two titans of industry books buttressing it, but I still have to wonder about the original cataloging decision to place Pirsig's mid-seventies veiled-autobiography within the non-fiction CT (Library of Congress' Biography subclass of Auxiliary Sciences of History) classification.
Correction: The book to the left of Pirsig's on the shelf is The First Henry Ford -- not John Ford. At least on the level of title John Ford's The Quiet Man would link up vaguely, very vaguely, to the usual public perception of Zen.
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