A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing books occur almost accidentally, like a sudden change in the stock market.

— Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)

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