Friends Cannot Be Objects "I suppose if I were a novelist rather than a Chautauqua orator I'd try to 'develop' the characters of John and Sylvia and Chris with action-packed scenes that would also reveal 'inner meanings' of Zen and maybe Art and maybe even Motorcycle Maintenance. That would be quite a novel, but for some reason I don't feel quite up to it. They're friends, not characters, and as Sylvia herself once said, 'I …showed first 75 words of 929 total…

…showed last 75 words of 929 total…things shouldn't be taken for granted, that's a big point in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." Everything needs to be appreciated or else, without paying enough attention, it'll disappear and then you'll understand what you had all along. No one likes to be an object, a lot of people need to learn this or else, they'll find out the hard way. If no one cares while something's there, it'll disappear without anyone noticing.