Upon My Arrival In 2002, This Café Was Closed.
….Thus This Photo Of The Inside of the Café Was Taken Through The Narrator’s “plate-glass window”, Hence The Strange Reflections In Various Places.
….Please Try To Imagine Chris & Robert Pirsig Sitting On The Round Stools!

“Some kids come in on a truck and stop and all pile off and come into the restaurant and sort of dominate it. They’re reasonably well- behaved, just noisy and energetic, but you can see the lady who’s running it is a little nervous about them.“ (Cont.Next)

204 West Main Street, Mitchell, OR.
….By talking to local people and judging from this restaurant’s general age, this is very likely the Narrator’s Café in Mitchell. They said that its owner for reasons of health, had gone into retirement.
….Judging from the weeds and sun faded cardboard I saw in 2002, this restaurant must have been closed well before 2002.
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Was The Restaurant Lady Also In A Mu State?
….As She Is Wondering What To Do About The “ Just Noisy And Energetic “ Kids”
… Here we might wonder why Author Robert Pirsig here seemingly is “wasting so many words” on this above passage? As is discussed in previous photos => Is this a case of “Metaphoric Bridge Connection”? Where, indeed, Author Robert Pirsig intends for us to see that this IS a Mu State for the Restaurant Lady!

Or, Is This Just Another Case Of Author Robert Pirsig’s Good Storytelling, thus adding full complete physical realism? And doing this because => About the time ZMM was being written, Pirsig said something like the following:
…."For success, ZMM needed all the support it could get." He went on to say: "For the reader to accept the overall central philosophic messages of ZMM, the story narrative must seem to the reader, absolutely real."
….And for Author Pirsig, the way to achieve this, was to be both interesting and absolutely factual with his travel scenery.
….And That, I Believe, Is Why The Travel Narrative Was Added To ZMM In The First Place. And In This Way, Mr. Pirsig’s Book Did Yes Succeed In Getting All The Help It Can Get! ….
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