Zen and the Art…
I was surprised to discover that Edward Dyason and Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance published in 1974, had something in common. Dyason in his early sixties and Pirsig, in his early twenties, were concerned with the problem posed by the rise of science in the West as the principal means of […]
The Glass House
One of Dyason’s early ventures into underwriting was floating V. Leonard Kanevsky Pty Ltd in 1919. Leonard Kanevsky had arrived in Australia in 1912, a refugee via England from Tsarist Russia where he had been imprisoned for his politics. He was a moderate socialist and a follower of Alexander Kerensky who was later minister for […]
Thobbery
As I discovered when I went to look up the meaning of ‘thobbery’, after encountering it in Dyason’ writing, the word seems to have come back into use after disappearing for the best part of a century. Its revival now, at a time when it is increasingly difficult to distinguish the true from the false […]