Here The Mountain Slopes Down To The Beach.

…“The wind blows cold off the ocean and where it has formed dunes, now wet and dark from the rain that must just have ended here, I find a place to lie down, and this makes me a little warmer. .. I don’t sleep though. A little girl appears over the top of the dune looking as though she wants me to come and play. After a while she goes away. .. In time Chris comes back and wants to go. He says he has found some funny plants out on the rocks that have feelers which pull in when you touch them. ” (Cont. Next)
Five miles South of Orick, CA. The ZMM Reader should come to attention when seeing the Narrator’s seeming useless words => A little girl appears over the top of the dune looking as though she wants me to come and play. After a while she goes away.”
…But this inserted phrase, has an important meaning similar to the Narrator’s 1) “A small bird rises from a tree in front of us. ” or 2) “ Except for that and the chirping of some little bird there’s no sound.”
...These 3phrases are Author Robert Pirsig’s way of telling us, that he as author knows that the Narrator’s treatment of Chris is very deficient.
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