Cruising Blues and Their Cure

August 4, 2018 12:34 PM

Cruising Blues and Their Cure By Robert Pirsig (originally published in Esquire, May 1977) "This is the understanding that whether you are bored or excited, depressed or elated, successful or unsuccessful, even whether you are alive or dead, all this is of absolutely no consequence whatsoever. The sea keeps telling you this with every sweep of every wave."
posted by JohnR (4 comments total)

Thanks for this! IIRC, Lila includes a similar discussion.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 1:45 PM on August 4, 2018 [3 favorites]

singing
Let me go home
Why don't they let me go home
This is the worst trip I've ever been on

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the main sail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I want to go home, let me go home
Why don't you let me go home
posted by happyroach at 4:25 PM on August 4, 2018 [2 favorites]

I don’t think this person means what I mean when I say “depression.”
posted by Pembquist at 7:28 PM on August 4, 2018 [1 favorite]

That's a lovely read, thank you.
posted by meaty shoe puppet at 7:07 AM on August 5, 2018