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...scape of bleak mining towns, rundown homesteads and rural junkyards. Keeble resonantly plays the present against the past, especially in descriptions of Erks' dangerous drive over the mountains and across deserts. There are intensely perceived set pieces: a dog battling a possum; a woman reassembling a carburetor with Zen-like grace; a Snopesian funeral in a field littered with rusty tractor parts and dominated by the sight and smell of a huge pig roasting on a spit...
...caller, respond to them as a caring human being and not make moral judgments about their behavior. The point is to give them both the strength and the incentive to help themselves, to take steps to deal with their problems or to stop doing self-destructive things. Sort of Zen counselling. And it's definitely not a one-way street either--callers often provide good advice and emotional reassurance to counsellors...
...Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M, Pirsig: a cross-country search for enlightenment...
...record speak for itself. Before Pinocchio's, I stood only 5'9" and 140 lbs. Now I stand 5'10" and 150 lbs.--well muscled and without zits, I have found Zen...
...Brown fan for Jerry's stands and, likely as not, they will draw a blank. Brown simply doesn't run on his stands. He's too Zen for that. He was against Proposition 13 until it passed, whereupon he rode the fiscal austerity wave to such strong conservative applause that he got carried away and started calling for a constitutional convention to balance the budget. He's for cutting defense spending and conserving resources--and for a massive new space program. He's for making corporations more responsive to the public--and he is for abdicating governmental responsibility for physical...