The Narrator Awakes To A Cold Grey Predawn.

….(Start Chapter 26) “A sensation of cold wakes me up. I see out of the top of the sleeping bag that the sky is dark grey. I pull my head down and close my eyes again. .. Later I see the grey of the sky is lighter, and it’s still cold. I can see the vapor of my breath. An alarmed thought that the grey is from rain clouds overhead wakes me up, but after looking carefully I see that this is just grey dawn. It seems too cold and early to start riding yet, so I don’t get out of the bag. But sleep is gone.“(Cont.Next)

Brownlee Camp Ground ~18 miles Northwest of Cambridge, ID.
(More and better photos needed.)

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PHOTO =>
… NOW From The Above Discussion, OUR WONDER IS ANSWERED =>
…. The “ chirping of some little bird “ foretells => Of the New Arriva …Being Pre-Announced: … What Was coming? …What was being foretold => WAS =>
…. “Chris is trying to ~”Reach out” to his Dad, but The Narrator only replies with ~”Non-Answers”. And as a major point of The ZMM Novel => The Narrator’s inabilities to relate to his son, has no answer!”

AND We See A Possible Metaphor Here =>
…..The “ chirping of some little bird “ foretells Chris trying to “reach out”. …“ there’s no sound.“ is the non-answers from the Narrator Dad. …“ I can hear a small stream nearby,“ is the sound of nature in the flow of time.


AN EXPLANATION REPEATED FROM A ZMM PART II PHOTO => ….
….In such above-mentioned => 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, http://venturearete.org/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/Documents/ZmmNarratorChrisRelationship 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!

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(Photo = 103-0333c ...... ZMM Page = 270 ...... WayPt = 296i3 4382ft. Photo at WayPt = 036 ~0600ft)