Pirsig writes that, the real ugliness is not the result of any objects of technology or the people who produce it.

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D. from the University of Chicago (where Pirsig had been a grad student), a fellowship at the University of Virginia, and, most important, a scrappy motorcycle-repair shop in Richmond.

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