A Google Street View Of The “Lakes & Marshes” By Route 55 Northwest Of Minneapolis, MN.

…" I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning. The wind, even at sixty miles an hour, is warm and humid. When it’s this hot and muggy at eight-thirty, I’m wondering what it’s going to be like in the afternoon.
…In the wind are pungent odors from the marshes by the road. We are in an area of the Central Plains filled with thousands of duck hunting sloughs, heading northwest from Minneapolis toward the Dakotas. This highway is an old concrete two-laner that hasn’t had much traffic since a four-laner went in parallel to it several years ago. When we pass a marsh the air suddenly becomes cooler. Then, when we are past, it suddenly warms up again. "
…NOTE: In this ZMM Passage (as is true for the passages of the NEXT 13 photos), Author Robert Pirsig wants the ZMM Reader to know by Metaphoric Bridge Connection (MBC), about the good qualities and of traveling the secondary roads. AND as a person travels on them learn to “see” what is “really there”!

~1 Mile Northwest of Buffalo, MN,

… In His Book “''Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance,” (ZMM)., Author Robert Pirsig, Wants Us To Remember That ANY TIME There Is. “A Next Paragraph Abrupt Switch”. Either Way, Between Chautauqua & Travel Narrative, We Then Are To =>
..1) Take notice and actively, poetically see the Metaphoric Bridge Connections (MBC), either way, between the a) Chautauqua Lecture and b) Travel Narrative Scenery+Actions...
..2) We should realize these MBC’s are carefully and purposefully put here by Author Robert Pirsig for this very emphasis.
..3) In fact, it is very likely that the physical landscape locations along the ZMM Route, were chosen for this very purpose. This is because these descriptions above a) & b) would effectively two-way illuminate (by MBC) each of the respective Chautauqua Topics AND Travel Narrative+Actions, that Mr Pirsig wanted to present in his book.
..4) For example, this is seen in TWO different “types” of Metaphoric Bridge Connections, which Author Robert Pirsig wants The ZMM Reader to see =>
…A) In ZMM after the Narrator finishes discussing the ''Crisis of the Three Mathematical Geometries, '' there is a Next Paragraph “Abrupt Switch” to the Travel Narrative, and actions in the town of Three Forks, MT.
…B) In ZMM there are Metaphorical Telegraphs For Special Emphasis or Added Relationships” such as at The Lochsa River Canyon Idaho Campground, where The Narrator says a seeming unimportant side note => “Some birds fly up from the shadowy hill into the sunlight and I watch them until they’re out of sight. ” But the alert ZMM Reader must realize this another of many very important Master Motifs, where this is => Author Robert Pirsig’s way of telling us (Master Motif Metaphorical Telegraph), what has been going wrong in the Narrator’s communication with Chris. And this seeming unimportant side note, is actually Author Pirsig’s way to tell us as readers, to know that he knows, that this treatment of Chris is wrong, and chooses these Master Motif ways to tell us this.
Click Here To See ZMMQ Gallery Photo & Discussion Of Chris &The Narrator’s Lochsa River Canyon Idaho Campground.
..5) AND we are to feel these Metaphoric Bridge Connections (MBC) emotionally!
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Click Here For More Information => Concerning Analogy, Metaphors, and Metaphoric Bridge Connections (MBC), That Are Found In The Book “''Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance'' ” (ZMM).
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A Listing Of Major Topics That Are Taken Up In The Second Text Page Of Robert Pirsig’s “Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance. ” (ZMM).
…This following list is made from Robert Pirsig own words starting on page 4. We see that Mr Pirsig even on the second text page of his book, that he not only tells us the Major Topics, for the rest of his book, but also the nature, style, and approach he will use and the reasons for it,.
…SUGGESTION: If you have some time, pull out your paper copy of ZMM, and read starting at the beginning, to see how Author Robert Pirsig does this, so nice and compact!
…AND send me an email if you see more items that need to be added to the following, or you don’t agree with mine.
(1) Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere. We are just vacationing. '' [A good way for productive learning AND a good method for discovery of good new ideas & good ways of doing things. ]
(2) '' Secondary roads are preferred. Paved county roads are the best, state highways are next. Freeways are the worst. '' [The ZMM Narrator introduces the topic of what is good, and wants us to notice the reasons why. This topic is continued in (3) &(4) next down.]
(3) '' We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on "good" rather than "time" and ''
(4) '' when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes. Twisting hilly roads are long in terms of seconds but are much more enjoyable on a cycle where you bank into turns and don’t get swung from side to side in any compartment. Roads with little traffic are more enjoyable, as well as safer, & no billboards . Roads free of drive-ins and are better, roads where groves and meadows and orchards and lawns come almost to the shoulder, where kids wave to you when you ride by, ''
() '' where people look from their porches to see who it is, where
(5) [It is along such rural roads that => ] ''when you stop to ask directions or information the answer tends to be longer than you want rather than short, where people ask where you’re from and how long you’ve been riding. '' [This is what happens in what the ZMM Narrator calls '' “Secondary America” '' as opposed to the Narrator’s '' “Primary America”. '' ]
(6) '' It was some years ago that my wife and I and our friends first began to catch on to these roads. '' [The problem of blindness to what is “really there”, and sometimes it takes many “exposures”, before you can begin to “see” what is “really there”.]
(7) '' We took them [these rural roads] once in a while for variety or for a shortcut to another main highway, and each time the scenery was grand and we left the road with a feeling of relaxation and enjoyment. '' [This '' feeling of relaxation and enjoyment, '' is often a very good guide (and indicator) as to when you are proceeding with correct and good action.]
(8) '' We did this time after time before realizing what should have been obvious: these roads are truly different from the main ones. '' [This is a continuation of The ZMM Narrator’s telling us of => Good ways for productive learning AND a good method for discovery of good new ideas & good ways of doing things. ]
(9) '' The whole pace of life and personality of the people who live along them are different. '' [This is a continuation of The ZMM Narrator’s telling us of => How to see the differences between his '' “Secondary America” '' as opposed to his '' “Primary America”. '' ]
(10) '' They’re not going anywhere. They’re not too busy to be courteous. ''
(11) '' The hereness and nowness of things is something they know all about. '' [An aspect of Michael Polanyi tacit knowledge.] [Here the ZMM Narrator introduces the major topic and virtues of '' “The hereness and nowness of things. ”. '' In other words => Be sure that you are aware of the things immediately around you and thus be => Present in the here and now. ]
(12) The discovery was a real find. '' [ZMM Narrator’s is telling us of the major topic of => Noticing when and how you have connected to reality.]
(13) '' I’ve wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it and yet we didn’t see it. '' [The whole problem of blindness to what is “really there”.]
NOTE: You may see the complete list (1) thru (34) in the above Blue Link.
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