Books mentioned in ZMM
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25th Anniversary ZMM Edition

Chapter 4, pg. 41


Books. I don't know of any other cyclist who takes books with him. They take a lot of space, but I have three of them here anyway, with some loose sheets of paper in them for writing. These are:


1. The shop manual for this cycle.


2. A general troubleshooting guide containing all the technical information I can never keep in my head. This is Chilton's Motorcycle Troubleshooting Guide written by Ocee Rich and sold by Sears, Roebuck.


Thanks for the PDF Chris. 

https://www.bartneck.de/2013/07/24/shop-manual-honda-cb77-super-hawk/

3. A copy of Thoreau's Walden -- which Chris has never heard and which can be read a hundred times without exhaustion. I try always to pick a book far over his head and read it as a basis for questions and answers, rather than without interruption. I read a sentence or two, wait for him to come up with his usual barrage of questions, answer them, then read another sentence or two. Classics read well this way. They must be written this way. Sometimes we have spent a whole evening reading and talking and discovered we have only covered two or three pages. It's a form of reading done a century ago -- when Chautauquas were popular. Unless you've tried it you can't imagine how pleasant it is to do it this way.

25th Anniversary ZMM Edition

Chapter 26, pg. 308-9


The road winds through a landscape that reminds me of northern Rajasthan, in India, where it's not quite desert, much piñon, junipers and grass, but not agricultural either, except where a draw or valley provides a little extra water. 


Those crazy Rubàiyat Quatrains keep rumbling through my head. 


-- something, something along some Strip of
Herbage strown , 

That just divides the desert from the sown ,  

Where name of Slave and Sultan scarce is known ,  

And pity Sultan Mahmud on his Throne. --


--  Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say , 

Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday? 

And this first Summer month that brings the Rose , Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.


 -- And so on and so forth -- 


Let's get off Omar and onto the Chautauqua. Omar's solution is just to sit around and guzzle the wine and feel so bad that time is passing and the Chautauqua looks good to me by comparison. Particularly today's Chautauqua, which is about gumption. 
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