The Next Morning, At The Shadehill Reservoir Lake Campground, The Super Clear Sky And Super Dry Arid Landscape, Are The Environment For The Narrator’s Discovery Of Stripped Threads On His Cycle,

…Although The Narrator’s Problem With ""Thread’s Stripped In The Chain Adjustment,"” May Seem An UN-important Problem, We Eventually See That =>

…This Starts An Important Explanation For The "Back Up.” Problem. AND Leads A Page Later To A Metaphoric Bridge Connections (MBC).

…"While loading the remaining gear on the luggage rack I see with surprise that the rear tire is worn way down. All that speed and heavy load and heat on the road yesterday must have caused it. The chain is also sagging and I get out the tools to adjust it and then groan.
…"What’s the matter," John says.
…"Thread’s stripped in the chain adjustment."
…I remove the adjusting bolt and examine the threads. "It’s my own fault for trying to adjust it once without loosening the axle nut. The bolt is good." I show it to him. "It looks like the internal threading in the frame that’s stripped."
…John stares at the wheel for a long time. "Think you can make it into town?"
…"Oh, yeah, sure. You can run it forever. It just makes the chain difficult to adjust."
…He watches carefully as I take up the rear axle nut until it’s barely snug, tap it sideways with a hammer until the chain slack is right, then tighten up the axle nut with all my might to keep the axle from slipping forward later on, and replace the cotter pin. Unlike the axle nuts on a car, this one doesn’t affect bearing tightness.
…"How did you know how to do that?" he asks.
…"You just have to figure it out."
…"I wouldn’t know where to start," he says.
…I think to myself, That’s the problem, all right, where to start. To reach him you have to back up and back up, and the further back you go, the further back you see you have to go, until what looked like a small problem of communication turns into a major philosophic enquiry. That, I suppose, is why the Chautauqua. “

NOTE1: In the above ZMM passage, especially notice 4 cases of => "back up.“ AND then notice how a full & necessary "back up“ explanation can lead to => "a small problem of communication [which] turns into a major philosophic enquiry. That, I suppose, is why the Chautauqua.“

NOTE2: This above last sentence is essentially, how the initial writing of ZMM book got started. Author Robert Pirsig’s first writing, on several paper pages, was originally to help John understand how to do his own cycle maintenance. However because "back up’s.“kept happening, the “several pages” kept multiplying, until ZMM was finished, as we now see it!

Campground, Shadehill Reservoir Lake, SD. The campground has been much improved since **********************

… In His Book ''Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance,” (ZMM), Author Robert Pirsig, Wants Us To Remember That ANY TIME There Is A Same “Idea”, Applied To A Different Circumstance, A Page Later. We Should =>
..1) Take notice and actively, poetically see the Metaphoric Bridge Connections (in this case really an Analogy Connection), either way, between the a) The first discussion and b) The second discussion.
..2) We should realize these MBC’s (And Analogy Connections) are carefully and purposefully put here by Author Robert Pirsig to help reader understanding or for other emphasis, which in this case is the "Back Up.” Problem. .
..3) In fact, it is very likely that Author Robert Pirsig chose present the a) and b) this way, is so that the descriptions of a) & b) would effectively two-way illuminate (by MBC or Analogy) each of the respective topic “ideas”.
..4) For example, one of the two different “types” of Metaphoric Bridge Connections, which Author Robert Pirsig Wants The ZMM Reader To See, Is IN The Above ZMM Passage, which has the FIRST HALF Of An Important Metaphoric Bridge Connections, and is explained as follows =>
… In this above ZMM Passage, we especially notice 4 cases of => "back up.“

..5) Then one page later (The SECOND HALF Of An Important Metaphoric Bridge Connection), where the Narrator TWICE says "back up.“ as follows =>
“ I want to talk about the underlying form of the world of underlying form itself…. but before I can use it honestly I have to back up and say what it is and means, and that is a long story in itself. Part of this back-up problem.…."
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Please See The NEXT Photo, Which Gives A Full Narrator Passage To Show The Larger Context Of Passage Next Above.
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(Photo = 104-0434 ...... ZMM Page = 056 ...... WayPt = 068`|z' 2210ft)
(Photo at WayPt = ~075)