After Getting Around All Those Gumption Traps, You Still Must Live Right!

….“ [ Well, if I get around all those gumption traps, then will I have the thing licked? “ ]" .
…. “ The answer, of course, is no, you still haven’t got anything licked. You’ve got to live right too. It’s the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right facts. You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It’s easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. That’s the way all the experts do it. The making of a painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn’t separate from the rest of your existence. If you’re a sloppy thinker the six days of the week you aren’t working on your machine, what trap avoidances, what gimmicks, can make you all of a sudden sharp on the seventh? It all goes together. “(Cont.Next)

Several miles East of Prineville, OR. The poetic content of town name Prineville poetically sounds to me … prim, primp, prickly, rind- whine-ville and hostile.
…. Again There Is Metaphoric Bridge Connection, where in this case a town name used. This helps us (as readers), feel the Narrator’s complete, fatigue, discouragement, and depression. And similarly for Robert Pirsig as The Narrator when in Prineville area:
….The “whine-ville and hostile” town name so contributes to the whole mood, which Author Robert Pirsig has carefully assembled for us! And he probably also feels this, as he is writing these passages.
….In Summary: Note how the content of the Chautauqua Gumptionology Lecture and The Scenery are very wearing to both the Narrator and even you, the reader!
….BUT! BUT! => The problem is => We don’t at all, hear what is happening to Chris.
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Apologies For My Photos Failure To Show Realistic Time Of Day For The ZMM Narrative, Here And The Next 10 Photos.
….My /\ Above /\ Photo shows it’s getting dark, contrary to Narrator’s ” late afternoon letdown” , mentioned in Previous Photo.
….And fairly good daylight must have continued through Bend, Oregon (( as they continued to travel with the Narrator’s complete, fatigue, discouragement, and depression)), since it was still twilight, when they arrived at their camping spot South of Bend, OR, ANOTHER ~54 MILES AWAY !!

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