But who was the old personality whom they had known and presumed I was a continuation of?-Robert Pirsig Robert Persig’s 1974 book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, is the story of a madman’s road trip across the country with his son in tow. There is a lot of talk about the meaning of things, and there is a lot of talk about motorcycles. So much talk about motorcycles that I was briefly infatuated with the idea of buying one after reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. But it was really the madness…