This May or May Not Be The Restful Grass Of Chris And The Narrator;
….However, This Presbyterian Church Has Lazy Day Warm Sun.

“ …. and walk for a while, back away from the main street. We come to a church and sit down on the lawn in front of it. Chris lies back on the grass and covers his eyes with his jacket. .. "You tired?" .. I ask him.
.... "No.
.... Between here and the edge of the mountains to the north, heat waves shimmer the air. A transparent-winged bug sets down from the heat on a stalk of grass’s by Chris’s foot. I watch it flex its wings, feeling lazier every minute. I lie back to go to sleep, but don’t. Instead a restless feeling hits. I get up. "“

Wilson Street, One Block South of Main Street, just South of Babcock Street, Bozeman, MT.
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DATE-LINE: April 21, 2021. by Henry Gurr.
….MYSTICAL, POSSIBLY SPIRITUAL FORCES, CAUSED CHRIS & NARRATOR TO “[Not] Go To Sleep, But Instead A Restless Feeling Hits. I Get Up
…. The ZMM Book Enthusiast, reading the above, =>
…. “A transparent-winged bug sets down … by Chris’s foot ..." =>.
……. Should pause to wonder WHY this passage is there, since there are NO Useless, Wasted Words in ZMM!
..A) Of Course, the lazy resting bug, flexing wings, adds to the realism of the lazy day mood of Chris and Narrator. And thus is
..B) Good storytelling, and this may have actually happened here or some other part of Author Pirsig’s life.
..C) OR, THIS BUG PHRASE MAY BE LIKE THE PREVIOUS MASTER MOTIF => …. “In the distance a single bird cries plaintively.”
….AND THUS THIS IS TO ANNOUNCE, that Mystical, possibly Spiritual Forces, caused Chris & Narrator to “[not] go to sleep, but don’t. Instead a restless feeling hits. I get up "
..D) AND, now because of how this is presented to us (Like other similar MOTIFS), this passage is to be taken as a telegram => Foretelling That There Will be => A Powerful Unforgettable Series of Events, Which Are Fore-Announced In This One Innocent Looking Sentence.
…. In this case => The crucial Montana Hall scene which prompted the Narrator’s memory of Sarah and her key phrase “ Are you teaching Quality? ”
..E) Thus The Narrator’s Fore-Announces The Coming Powerful. Unforgettable Series of Events =>
…..”And that door leads to Sarah’s office. Sarah! Now it comes down! She came trotting by with her watering pot between those two doors, going from the corridor to her office, and she said, "I hope you are teaching Quality to your students." This in a la-de-da, singsong voice of a lady in her final year before retirement about to water her plants. That was the moment it all started. That was the seed crystal. ”
..F) This solid credit to Sarah, also is later in ZMM =>
…..” Sarah, who long before had come by with her watering pot and put the idea of Quality in his head, ” .
..G) So we see in ZMM, that the Narrator thrice credits Sarah for the whole idea of Quality, and thus in essence, Sarah is in reality the initial progenitor for the whole of the ZMM Book!
SUMMARY:
….The above => “A transparent-winged bug sets down … by Chris’s foot ..." =>. Should be taken as a telegram =>
…. Foretelling that => Important Momentous Discovery Events are just ahead! In this case, in Montana Hall, and the Discovery Of Crucial Memories => Of Sarah Vinke’s prompting Re Quality => “Are you teaching Quality?”
…Such a Telegram, is Author Pirsig’s method, to alert the reader => That There Soon Will be => A, Powerful Unforgettable Series of Events.

All This Is Fore-Announced In = This One Innocent Looking Sentence.
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