Yes! Inside Montana Hall, Is Sort of a Scary Place!! =>
….Especially When We Are Standing On These => “Inside Are More Stairs, Worn And Wooden.

….[ “I open the great heavy outside door and enter. Inside are more stairs, worn and wooden. They creak underfoot and smell of a hundred years of sweeping and waxing. Halfway up I stop and listen. There’s no sound at all.
.......Chris whispers, "I don’t like it here. It’s scary in here."
...."Go outside then," I say.
...."You come too."
...."Later."
…."No, now."
…. He looks at me and sees I’m staying. His look is so frightened I’m about to change my mind, but then suddenly his expression breaks and he turns and runs down the stairs and out the door before I can follow him.” ]

Montana Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman MT

….Here the perceptive ZMM Reader should pop to attention when seeing the Narrator fails to positively respond to Chris’s obvious fear! => “.Chris whispers, "Why are we here?"
....I just shake my head. I hear a car go by outside..“

AND Pop To Attention When Reading => A Seeming Useless, Out of Place Pointless Phrase => Such As => I Hear A Car Go By Outside.
….In ZMM, there are NO Useless Wasted Words!
…… In this case (& others Similar), the reader should =. “Pause and Think Beyond The “Ordinary”! AND then realize this Passage, is like other phrases such as =>”..
…. “In the distance a single bird cries plaintively.
….In Other Words => OK! YES!! This Fits The Master Motif Situation!!!
….As Chris & the Narrator enter Montana Hall, the ZMM Narrator several times, even when seeing Chris’ deep fear, fails to quickly realize he should be a consoling father, and immediately help Chris.
….Here as in other cases, the Narrator practically never realizes, he could just as well temporally set aside his own egotistical concerns. He has plenty of time. After all this is a “Vacation”, to help get on better terms with Chris!
EXPLANATION => …. In such Master Motif situations, Author Robert Pirsig is telling us, he in retrospect knows that => He, as author, recognizes that his writing into ZMM as a Novel, shows the Narrator’s “Unsympathetic, Bad Behavior To Chris”: And this very Master Motif Method, is his Author’s coded short hand way to tell us, he, as Author, very well knows this!
… For More Discussion Of The ZMM Narrator -- Chris Relationship Click Here.
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SIDE NOTE CONTINUED TOPIC FROM PREVIOUS PHOTO =>
….It is common for Older University Buildings to have a flight (or half flight) of stairs up to the First Floor, immediately inside the Central Main Front Door,.
….This is true for my Old Rockefeller Physics Building, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, and Several of the University of Chicago Buildings where Phaedrus went to Graduate School, including Cobb Hall, location of Phaedrus’ Classes for Committee For The Analysis of Ideas And Methods.


(Photo = 108-0828r ...... ZMM Page = 157 ...... WayPt = 203w 4915ft)
210506:1030 Google find Elevation Topo > Montana Hall, 203w’ 4915ft
211007:1443 On Optiplex GoogleEarth > Montana Hall, 203w’ = 4918ft