As We Pass Through Coastal Northern California Wine Country, The Freeway Becomes Wider and Wider.

…Standing On The Rt-12 Overpass Bridge And Looking North We, See A Second View Of The Dense High Speed Traffic On Freeway US-101.

… [ “The freeway miles seem so easy now. The engine which has carried us halfway across a continent drones on and on in its continuing oblivion to everything but its own internal forces. We pass through Asti and Santa Rosa, and …. ” ] (Cont Next)

Overpass bridge, Rt-12 intersection with US-101, Santa Rosa, CA.
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Poetics, And Metaphoric Bridge Connections, In Author Robert Pirsig’s ''Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance” =>
…During the ZMM Narrator’s whole trip, he has used the poetics of his words, to expand the force and meaning of his narrative. In previous photos this has been called “Metaphoric Bridge Connection(s)”.
…In fact, there are reasons to believe, that the real existence (“Good old reality”) of certain town names (or special scenery, or weather), helped Author Robert Pirsig, to originally set-up the ordering of his chapters and corresponding topics.
…Now here, in Author Robert Pirsig’s “Wine Country”, we notice how Mr. Pirsig works-in the poetics of Town Names, along US-101 from Ukiah, CA to San Francisco, CA, such as => Hopland (Says to me “Hope-land”), Cloverdale (Says a Rich, Moist, Fertile, Full Of Clover Meadow), Petaluma (Says Luminous, Full of Light), Novato (Says New, Novel) and Santa Rosa (Says Beauty & Fragrance of Roses, plus purity of a Religious Saint.) etc.

Now, To Make The Point =>
…Contrast the above 4 town names with the less poetic town names that Mr. Pirsig did NOT used, such as => El Robo, Pieta, Preston, Geyseville, Litton, Simi, Healdsburg, Grant, Windsor, Fulton, Cotati, Haystack, etc

…To Me, The Literary Effect Of Mr Pirsig’s Town Names =>
…Hopland, Cloverdale, Petaluma, Santa Rosa, raise aspirations for light, sunshine, meadow, rich, moist, fertile, full of optimism, and much hope for the future.
…Which is clearly the mood intended in Pirsig’s final entire final chapter, and most especially his final 32 paragraphs.
…These are the paragraphs, in which these real town names, in this very area California help contribute, in just 4 town names, a delightful, but factual, closure to Mr, Pirsig’s book!!
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