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Narrator and son ride motorcycle from Minnesota to coastal Oregon. Narrator recently had a frontal lobotomy and son has his own mental challenges. Narrator refers to his pre-lobotomy self as Phaedrus. Narrator pursues Phaedrus' philosophical knowledge, which likely drove him mad, as the motorcycle trip progresses.

The philosophy is kind of timeless and kind of epitomizes the social awakening of the 1970s