Chris kept asking questions that started to anger me because he didn't see how serious it was. Just matter-of-factly. Aluminum doesn't oxidize in wet weather...or, more precisely, it always has a thin layer of oxide that prevents any further oxidation. "It's just a whole other thing," she says, when in a thoughtful mood. 0000001780 00000 n "You look awfully pale," she says. The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around. He was after something. ", "If that law of gravity existed," I say, "I honestly don't know what a thing has to do to be nonexistent. Bracing. "They contain no matter," I continue, "and have no energy and therefore, according to the laws of science, do not exist except in people's minds. And a car engine is more complex and inaccessible than a cycle engine so there's more sense to this. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. The lubrication system consists of an oil pump and channels throughout the housing for distribution of the oil. We saw it and yet we didn't see it. I turn around and glance at Chris but he doesn't seem to be particularly interested in it. Now and then. I tell him so, and Chris wants to hear some of mine, but I can't remember any. There's no reason why it shouldn't start. I don't want to own these prairies, or photograph them, or change them, or even stop or even keep going. To reject that part of the Buddha that attends to the analysis of motorcycles is to miss the Buddha entirely. Chris's expression shows he is really settling into something bad. On the horizon appears an image of buildings, shimmering slightly. I think it stayed with him because he had seen a kind of image of himself. Then the rain comes hard on the road with a gust of earth-smell from the dust that has waited for too long and the dust beside the road is pocked with the first raindrops. They're not going anywhere. The oil filler cap is so hot it burns my fingers right through the gloves. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There are fewer trees here and suddenly I am aware they are no longer native. The machine itself receives some of the same feelings. "I think we missed our turn back there," John says. If the line wiggles, that's good. Sylvia is completely with him on this one. I check it from time to time the same way I would check a patient who has had a heart attack, even though it seems cured. What a change through the centuries. That shouldn't be long now. But if you can hold down that most obvious observation, some other things can be noticed that do not at first appear. At about seventy-five it seized again and freed at thirty, the same as before. ", "You've heard of the importance of eye contact in the classroom? I ask. Both are valid ways of looking at the world although irreconcilable with each other. Plugs. In the restaurant I try to comment on this but no one is interested. Combs. In the ’70s, while I was still bumbling my way through high school and establishing a glide path to academic doom, I had a teacher stop me on the way out the door, she wanted to talk to me. I holler back. "Hundred and two," he says, "last I saw. A general troubleshooting guide containing all the technical information I can never keep in my head. And the more I probe and push on this subject of cycle maintenance the more irritated he gets, and of course that makes me want to probe and push all the more. I read a sentence or two, wait for him to come up with his usual barrage of questions, answer them, then read another sentence or two. 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