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Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry is a 1976 documentary film directed by Donald Brittain and John Kramer for the National Film Board of Canada. [ 1 ] Malcolm Lowry , author of one of the major novels of the 20th century, Under the Volcano , was an English writer who spent a significant amount of time living and ...
Robert Maynard Pirsig (/ ˈ p ɜːr s ɪ ɡ /; September 6, 1928 – April 24, 2017) was an American writer and philosopher.He is the author of the philosophical books Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), and he co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings (2022) along with his ...
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values is a book by Robert M. Pirsig first published in 1974. It is a work of fictionalized autobiography and the first of Pirsig's texts in which he discusses his concept of Quality. [2] The title is an apparent play on the title of the 1948 book Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen ...
Here, Adler sets forth his method for reading a non-fiction book in order to gain understanding. He claims that three distinct approaches, or readings, must all be made in order to get the most possible out of a book, but that performing these three levels of readings does not necessarily mean reading the book three times, as the experienced reader will be able to do all three in the course of ...
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991) is the second philosophical novel by Robert M. Pirsig, who is best known for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Lila: An Inquiry into Morals was a nominated finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992. [ 1 ]
The baby is a girl named Sylvia. Lucietta was a great pianist, so to keep her memory alive Audrina takes piano lessons with Vera at the home of Lamar Rensdale. More than two years after her birth, Sylvia finally comes home from the hospital, and it is revealed that she is mentally challenged. Audrina is told by her father to take care of Sylvia.
Marsha P. Johnson (August 24, 1945 – July 3, 1992) was an American gay liberation [6] [7] activist and self-identified drag queen. [8] [9] In 1970 she stated she was receiving feminizing hormone therapy and had planned to get gender-affirming surgery. [10]
Reading it after publication, he believed Mary Anne had revealed many hermetic secrets that were better left unpublished, and therefore bought up the remaining stock and, with his daughter, burnt them, along with the unfinished manuscript of his poem. Only a few copies of the book survived. Atwood published nothing after A Suggestive Inquiry.