In Explaining Who He Is => The ZMM Narrator Uses SIX New Master Motifs =>
… 1) “HERE NOW”
… 2) “THE SUN DIFFUSES”
… 3) ”A HALATION OF THE LIGHT COMES”
… 4) THE HALO EXPANDS”
… 5) “A SUDDEN FLASH”
… 6) “A SINGLE BIRD CRIES PLAINTIVELY”
…. “ But what DeWeese and I know and the Sutherlands don’t know is that there was someone, a person who lived here once, who was creatively on fire with a set of ideas no one had ever heard of before, but then something unexplained and wrong happened and DeWeese doesn’t know how or why and neither do I. The reason for the impasse, the bad feeling, is that DeWeese thinks that person is here now. And there’s no way I can tell him otherwise.
.. .. For a brief moment, way up at the top of the ridge, the sun diffuses through the trees and a halation of the light comes down to us. The halo expands, capturing everything in a sudden flash, and suddenly it catches me too.
.... "He saw too much," I say, still thinking about the impasse, but DeWeese looks puzzled and John doesn’t register at all, and I realize the non sequitur too late. In the distance a single bird cries plaintively.
….. Now suddenly the sun is gone behind the mountain and the whole canyon is in dull shadow.“
DeWeese Home, Gallatin Gateway, MT.
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As You Read ZMM, BE ALERT FOR MASTER MOTIFS SUCH AS THE SIX LISTED ABOVE AT TOP.
….In EACH of these, Author Robert Pirsig is Sending & Revealing Important Messages For You, The ZMM Reader.
…WHEN YOU READ ZMM MASTER MOTIF PHRASES LIKE THESE SIX => PAY ATTENTION!!
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SIDE NOTE: The Narrator says => “I Realize The Non Sequitur Too Late”
…. DeWeese & John are confused, because there is no way for them to know => WHO IS THE **HE** THAT => "saw too much."
….The phrase => “ In the distance a single bird cries plaintively “ is Author Robert Pirsig’s way of telling us as readers that something pretty bad has happened.
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Professor Forest B Shearon, In His Book Review Of ZMM Writes =>
…."Thus the narrator, caught in the sun-created halo, blurts out to his confused friends his deepest fears about the madman who formerly resided in his body. Because Phaedrus "saw too much," the light went out for him just as the sun set ‘ suddenly the sun is gone ‘“ for the narrator that day on DeWeese's deck. The episode is a clear example of Pirsig's artistic manipulation of imagery in an autobiographical book.” .
….Passage above is from Guidebook to ZMM . . on page 332,
This valuable guidebook is by Ronald DiSanto & Tomas J. Steele.
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IN ADDITION => BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR MASTER MOTIFS IN ZMM THAT INVOLVE => “HERE & NOW” Such As =>
.. hereness and nowness. (1)
… ‘here and now”(of things) (3)
… “here now” (8)
… “here right now” (2)
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…FOR EXAMPLE1: People In A Hurry, Going Somewhere Else, Are An opposite of Quality. =>
…. what’s here right now is just something to get through. The drivers seem to be thinking about where they want to be rather than where they are.
…FOR EXAMPLE2: “Here & Now” Is A Major Point Of ZMM, Because This Is An Essence of QUALITY =>
…. The past cannot remember the past. The future can’t generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.
….Value, the leading edge of reality, is no longer an irrelevant offshoot of structure. Value is the predecessor of structure. It’s the preintellectual awareness that gives rise to it. Our structured reality is preselected on the basis of value, and really to understand structured reality requires an understanding of the value source from which it’s derived.
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(Photo = 108-0820cz1.8 ...... ZMM Page = 141 ...... WayPt = 198s' ~5720ft)
