Album: Part I: The Illustrated "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Chapters 1 thru 7.
The ZMM Book Trip, starts with the narrator pointing out Redwing Blackbirds to his son Chris. These birds are abundant in the Minnesota "duck hunting sloughs" along Minnesota Route 55 Northwest out of Minneapolis. .. Principles of Right Living are evident throughout ZMM. Clearly author Robert Pirsig is urging us all to perform our ordinary everyday tasks as a positive enjoyable part of our life. This theme is developed starting from the book's very beginning. For example in Part I, the narrator conducts his "Chautauqua Lectures on the topics of: 1) "Peace of Mind", 2) Slow down,, 3) Good Maintenance, 4) Mindfulness, and 5) "be-present-in-the-now". ….Author Robert Pirsig discusses the joys of the morning air, the sounds of nature, the qualities of the road, and surrounding scenery. He says on page 2, "On a motorcycle you are IN the scene ..... the sense of presence is overwhelming!" and on page 5, "The hereness and nowness of things is something they [rural people off the main roads] know all about." .. ZMM's sub-title is "An Inquiry Into Values". Here also the narrator starts this book-wide emphasis on Quality. He takes up, on page 4, a real world example: "Which highways and roads are best?" ..****************..
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Album: Part II: The Illustrated "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Chapters 8 thru 15.
ATTENTION” Before You View This Album, You Might FIRST Want To View The More Realistic 63 Photo Album Of => …Amateur Mountain Climber, Joe Pioro, Researched & Photographed => The Most Likely Gallatin National Forest Mountain Route That => Fits The ZMM Book’s Narrator + Chris Climb Narrative. INSTRUCTIONS: …Click on the Blue Link below, and after the 5 Albums Page comes up Read the description of the THIRD Album => …SUPPLEMENTARY PHOTO ALBUM FOR ZMM BOOK PART 3 … Then when ready click on the photo to see the first of four pages of 18 Small Photos. Click Here To Go To 5 Albums Page.
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Part III, Album Description, that Follows Here: …In the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Part II, our ZMM riders travel from Miles City, Montana to Bozeman, Montana. Chapter 8 opens in the fresh clear morning air of Miles City. The Narrator is in back of his hotel performing maintenance on his cycle. This is the occasion for a Chautauqua lecture on the entirely rational process of trouble-shooting and repairing. The successive steps to repair the Narrator's machine, serves as concrete examples of what his lecture is about. We also learn how the Narrator, the Sutherlands, and Chris are to spend their time in Miles City. As our ZMM Travelers "follow the Yellowstone Valley right across Montana.", we learn detailed lessons about how science and rationality are applied in motorcycle maintenance. We are to understand A corollary: The same processed to fix a motorcycle, are used to construct all of science! Examples and passages from Einstein and Poincaré' show the relation of maintenance to science and mathematics. The Narrator tells us more about the mysterious Phaedrus. After a wonderful stay in Laurel Montana, the riders start up into the mountains, and take one of the highest paved roads over Beartooth Pass into Wyoming, and then into Yellowstone National Park. The Narrator expresses his great disappointment in national parks. A wonderful and beautiful description of the mountain "high country" serves as a wonderfully poetic introduction to the Narrator's "high country of the mind" and this is the occasion for a long introduction to the history of Philosophy and Phaedrus' relation to it. We learn more about Phaedrus' earlier life as a teacher of Rhetoric at Montana State University Bozeman. This is our introduction to the DeWeese Family where our riders will stay for several days. At the beautiful DeWeese mountain canyon home, we also learn more about Phaedrus' problematic past and about how technology is an art and must be practiced with "peace of mind"! Part II closes with Narrator making plans to hike and camp the nearby mountains with Chris.

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Album: SUPPLEMENTAL ALBUM FOR ZMM BOOK PART III: Photos Illustrating "Chris + Narrator Mountain Climb", As Photographed By Amateur Mountain Climber, Joe Pioro.
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Album: Part III: The Illustrated "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" Chapters 16 thru 26.
As Part II closed the Narrator said “I think when the Sutherlands have left, Chris and I should do some climbing up to where that wind starts. I think it’s time he got a better look at that land."
Part III opens with the Narrator and Chris doing some mountain climbing and camping. Mixed with the local scenery, the Narrator develops his own Philosophic Perspective. They reach a wonderful climax of the Narrartor's theory of Quality as they correspondingly arrive in a clearing at the mountains chrest! The reader, of these pages struggles to understand The Narrator’s explication of Quality. with a capital Q: On this mountain climb with Chris, the Narrator is working on his own inquiry into the nature of “Quality”, This is his most important topic and that which dominates the entire book. The narrator starts his own "philosophy of every day practical living as he and Chris return to Lower Elevations and continue their trip West. As they travel from Bozeman, Montana to Prineville Junction, Oregon. The Narrator takes up: “Gumptionology 101...An examination of affective, cognitive and psychomotor blocks in the perception of Quality relationships.“ They ride on- and on and on through the lifeless, desolate and discouraging and disheartening deserts of central Oregon. This is where they experience the worst fatigue and depression yet. They are the hardest of all. “Something about the car drivers too. They look just like the gasoline attendant, staring straight ahead in some private trance of their own. I haven’t seen that since—since Sylvia noticed it the first day. They all look like they’re in a funeral procession.“ As Part III closes, he Narrator, now completely exhausted, reaches deep depression. Chris is increasingly resistant and sullen.

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Album: Part IV: The Illustrated "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Chapters 27 thru 32.
In Part IV, Chris and the Narrator travel from Prineville, Oregon to San Francisco, California. Chapter 27 opens with the Narrator experiencing another deeply troubling nightmare. Both he and Chris are terribly frightened! Throughout the final 6 chapters of ZMM, both Chris and the Narrator struggle to stave off the final crisis. We as reader of the book have been on an emotional rollercoaster as we have felt the tension of this crisis develop during the whole trip, and are worried we will not like what's going to happen!. Because of the Narrators deepening depression, his thoughts review, chapter after chapter, the dismal graduate school experiences of Phaedrus at the equally dismal University of Chicago. This is where an actual stall-out and mental breakdown did happen! The bleak "Chicago feeling" only compounds the Narrator's feelings that he can't go on. The weather, as they travel, is even makings things worse. First oppressive heat in the deserts in Southwest Oregon. And then it gets worse when they get to the California ocean coast, where they encounter exceedingly bad fog, and cold, and constant rain. Narrator experiences waves of depression and this forces the realization that he can no longer function as a father, or even control his motorcycle. Because of the cold and rain, Chris is additionally causing problems for the Narrator! "Finally, on a foggy, cold, wet, ocean-side cliff, the ever compounding problems reach a climax. Chris is forced to a breakdown, and is sobbing on the ground. The hideous sound of a huge truck, is coming at them out of the fog. This is the final straw! The Narrator wants to end it all in a leap off the cliff! The bad conditions and the ultimate moments of complete despair, force Father-Son discussion. The Narrator finally faces what has been purposely avoided the entire trip. Resolution arrives in a totally unexpected manner. Phaedrus makes his last appearance. As ZMM closes, the Narrator says, "We've won it! It's going to get better now. You can sort of tell these things.

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