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Subject:Re: Famous tech. communicators in literature? From:Erik Harris <ewh -at- PLAZA -dot- DS -dot- ADP -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:10:11 -0800
>The main character (I can't remember his name) in "Zen and the Art of
>Motorcycle
>Maintenance" was a technical writer.
I seem to recall that Robert Pirsig was a philosophy professor at Montana
State University. This is why he was obsessed with Plato's inquiry into the
nature of Quality.