Books with author Robert Byrd

Created complete, equipped for sporadic multiplication and later for auto-fertilization, the restless sex, intensely bored by the process of procreation, presently invented an auxiliary and labeled him. A fool proceeding, for the inherited mania for invention obsessed him and he began to invent gods. The only kind of gods that his imagination could conceive were various varieties of supermen, stronger, more cruel, craftier than he. And with these he continued to derive satisfaction by scaring himself. But the restless sex remained restless; the invention of the sign of Mars, far from bringing content, merely increased the capacity of the sex for fidgeting. And its insatiate curiosity concerning its own handiwork increased. This handiwork, however, fulfilled rather casually the purpose of its inventor, and devoted the most of its time to the invention of gods, endowing the most powerful of them with all its own cowardice, vanity, intolerance and ferocity. "He made us," they explained with a modesty attributable only to forgetfulness. "Believe in him or he'll damn you. And if he doesn't, we will!" they shouted to one another. And appointed representatives of various denominations to deal exclusively in damnation.

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Robert M. Pirsig is an American author and philosopher known for his book ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’. He was a bright student and very curious to understand various singularities of life. He lost interest in studies and dropped out of school. He served the U.S Army for a short while before returning back to earn a bachelorette in Eastern Philosophy. His curiosity to further research on Eastern philosophy made him study at ‘Banaras Hindu University’. After coming back to his native, he started working as a freelance journalist and technical writer while writing short stories. His writing skills encouraged him to publish his first philosophical book ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values’. He had recorded his philosophical discoveries during his motorcycle journey from Minnesota to California. His next book ‘Lila: An Inquiry into Morals’ was a semi-autobiographical book and has been acknowledged to have developed the ‘Metaphysics of Quality’.