This Montana Hall Floor Plan Shows Sarah’s and Pirsig’s Office Desk Locations As-Well-As The English Department Location On ~2nd Floor MSU’s Montana Hall.
….Notice At Right Word “North”, Which Is The FRONT DOOR SIDE Of Montana Hall.
……Please Use This Floor Plan, To Help Your Understanding Of The Action Of The ZMM Passage Next Down


….[A Framed Print] “had an appeal to him that was irrelevant to the art in that its subject, a kind of Gothic cathedral, created from semiabstract lines and planes and colors and shades, seemed to reflect his mind’s vision of the Church of Reason and that was why he’d put it here. All this comes back now. onto the Madison Range and watched the storms come in and while watching this valley before me now through this window here, now . . . started the whole thing, the whole madness, right here! This is the exact spot!
….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.
….Seed crystal. A powerful fragment of memory comes back now. The laboratory. Organic chemistry. He was working with an extremely supersaturated solution when something similar had happened. …..
….The one sentence "I hope you are teaching Quality to your students" was said to him, and within a matter of a few months, growing so fast you could almost see it grow, came an enormous, intricate, highly structured mass of thought, formed as if by magic. .... "

Montana Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT. In the /\ Above /\ Floor Plan => The Framed “print, Feininger’s ‘Church of the Minorites, " was likely on the long wall coming from the front of Montana Hall, since this would give “The light on the print comes from a miserable cramped window in the adjacent wall" and also be beside Pirsig’s Desk as shown.

Concerning the Narrator’s Window “Through Which He Looked Out Onto And Across The Valley Onto The Madison Range And Watched The Storms Come In.”
….All assembled. worthy evidence for the location of Robert Pirsig’s Montana Hall office fits the /\ Above /\ Floor Plan: Where this plan shows that the “miserable cramped window” is on the North side of Montana Hall, which looks over Bozeman and Gallatin Valley, in which directions, only un-remarkable distant mountains Northwest and North. And the mountains visible to the Northeast are The Bridger Mountains, and continuing South are The Gallatin Mountains, where was mentioned in a Previous Photo => “The ‘Crack In The Mountains’ is where Bozeman Pass & I-90 Go Between.”

…. ….The Madison Range, and Spanish Peaks are indeed visible (depending on growth of trees) to the Southwest from Classroom Windows on South side of Montana Hall: This may have been on Pirsig’s mind in the writing process, and became one of few places where Author Robert Pirsig is factually wrong. Since from this window there can be seen only un-remarkable distant mountains, Northwest and North of Montana Hall.
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….Many thanks to Ms Teresa Dysart for helping us know just where were the offices of Professors Sarah Vinke & Robert Pirsig, back in the years 1959 – 1961.

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