Minnesota Springtime Landscape Bursts Forth With Life!

… ["But now in July they’re back and everything is at its alivest and every foot of these sloughs is humming and cricking and buzzing and chirping, a whole community of millions of living things living out their lives in a kind of benign continuum.]
...You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you’re always in a compartment, and because you’re used to it you don’t realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You’re a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.
…On a cycle the frame is gone. You’re completely in contact with it all. You’re in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence [reality] is overwhelming. That concrete whizzing by five inches below your foot is the real thing, the same stuff you walk on, it’s right there, so blurred you can’t focus on it, yet you can put your foot down and touch it anytime, and the whole thing, the whole experience [reality], is never removed from immediate consciousness."

Photo needed for 5 Miles East of Maple Lake, MN.

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In the above ZMM passage notice especially =>
… "the sense of presence [reality] is overwhelming. … That concrete … below your foot is the real thing, … the whole experience [reality], is never removed from immediate consciousness."

…Thus we see as early as the second page of text that, Author Robert Pirsig’s clear & major emphasis on “reality” and immediate direct experience, which for him "is overwhelming."
… Click Here For => A Special Study Ot The Major ZMM Topics => Quality, Reality, & Good Old Reality.
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(Photo = 102-0283 …… ZMM Page = 004 WayPt = 000 = Photo is actually at WayPt = 009w 5Mi West of Glenwood MN)