After The Very Last Tiny Bit Of Red Has Faded From the Sky,
… In The Total Dark, The Narrator Ponders What to Do With Chris:
…..But There Is No Illumination!

….“I wish I knew what to say to him. Or what to ask. He seems so close at times, and yet the closeness has nothing to do with what is asked or said. Then at other times he seems very far away and sort of watching me from some vantage point I don’t see. And then sometimes he’s just childish and there’s no relation at all.
.... Sometimes, when thinking about this, I thought that the idea that one person’s mind is accessible to another’s is just a conversational illusion, just a figure of speech, an assumption that makes some kind of exchange between basically alien creatures seem plausible, and that really the relationship of one person to another is ultimately unknowable. The effort of fathoming what is in another’s mind creates a distortion of what is seen. I’m trying, I suppose, for some situation in which whatever it is emerges undistorted. The way he asks all those questions, I don’t know.” (End Chapter 25.)

Brownlee Campground, 18 miles Northwest of Cambridge, ID.
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FATHER & SON RELATIONSHIP CONTINUED =>:
The Chirping Of Some Little Bird … There’s No Sound.…
…. In the previous photo’s ZMM Passage => We see, how at best, the Narrator’s answers to Chris are vague non-answers.
….We also see above that => the Narrator realizes Chris is trying to get communication & improved relationship. AND The Narrator KNOWS he is not adequately responding, but offers his own reasons for his failure => He just doesn’t know how to answer Chris.
… But there’s a serious disparity here => The Narrator can talk endlessly and deeply about Reality, & Quality, & Gumption Traps, but he can’t figure out how to relate to his own son!
…Moreover, in the passage above, when the Narrator does try to think about communicating with Chris, he comes up with Philosophical Conundrums (See bold, in above ZMM Passage), which completely cloud any constructive answers.
….This lack of any way to adequately answer back to Chris, is solidly punctuated, by here abruptly ending Chapter 25!

GIVING ATTENTION TO “MASTER MOTIFS” IN ZMM =>
…. Since These Ideas Apply To The Above =>” Chirping Of Some Little Bird … There’s No Sound” … You May Want To Read More Here =>
A Continuation Of Motif Ideas From The Previous ZMM Part 2 Photo Captions,
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NOW. From The Above Discussion => Why Is There No Adequate Narrator Answer back to Chris? This Is ANSWERED In The NEXT Photo =>
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(Photo = 104-0418c ...... ZMM Page = 269 ...... WayPt = 296i2 4382ft. Photo at WayPt = 067w ~0660ft)