This Photo Can Serve to Illustrate the Narrator’s View, Since all the Mountains In This Area Look About the Same.

….“I say, "This is it" to Chris, and he gets off. We’re on a slope that allows us to see over unbroken forest for miles.
.... Chris is all for exploring, but I’m so tired I just want to rest. "You go by yourself," I say.
... "No, you come along."
.... "I’m really tired, Chris. In the morning we’ll explore."
.... I untie the packs and spread the sleeping bags out on the ground. Chris goes off. I stretch out, and the tiredness fills my arms and legs. Silent, beautiful forest . .
.... In time Chris returns, and says he has diarrhea.
.. . "Oh," I say, and get up. "Do you have to change underwear?"
.... "Yes." He looks sheepish.
.... "Well, they’re in the pack by the front of the cycle. Change and get a bar of soap from the saddlebag and we’ll go down to the stream and wash the old underwear out." He’s embarrassed by the whole thing and now is glad to take orders.” (Cont.Next)

Dirt Logging Road, Forested Mountains, Lochsa River Canyon, ID. Why does the Narrator always “press on down the road”, until so exhausted all he wants is “just want to rest”. ?
….AND Why does the Narrator ALWAYS THEN use his exhaustion to again not do what Chris wants, despite Chris repeated requests!

….In ZMM, There is no answer to just why this happens this way. We can suppose that Author Robert Pirsig wants us (as readers), to see this kind of dysfunctional Father – Son dynamic can happen in anyone’s life: Suggesting how this kind of problem may continue unsolved, but perhaps persons involved can finally realize how to find a way out.
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ZMM Research Examination => The Father & Son Relationship Closely Examined.
…. Click Here To Read => ZMM Research: The ZMM Narrator’s Treatment Of Chris, Both Good & Bad. … A Work In Progress, Yet To Be Completed.

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To See Robert Pirsig’ Original 1968 Photo Of Their Idaho Logging Road Campsite, Which Shows The Next Morning, With Chris Still Sleeping.
Right Click & Open New Tab, THEN Scroll Down To SECOND Album, Read Description, And Click on Photo For Small Photos. Click Any To View. The “Logging Road" Photo Is On Page <2> of Album That Comes Up. … After Viewing Pirsig Photo, Click Browser Back Arrow, Upper Left, To Return Here.
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(Photo = 110-1064cz.5 ...... ZMM Page = 244 ...... WayPt = 265i3. Photo at WayPt = 267x 3372ft) ">