Part I: The Illustrated "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Chapters 1 thru 7.  
2649 South Colfax Ave, Minneapolis  John Sutherland and his wife Sylvia, are one of the four main characters in ZMM. ”Later John mumbles something a few times, looks up and announces, "This does it—this just does the whole thing for us . . . Now we can go back for another eight years on Twenty-six-forty-nine Colfax Avenue." Sylvia says mournfully, "Let’s not talk about that."   Minneapolis MN dusk shrouds the quiet well maintained home at 2649 South Colfax Ave. From the contextual evidence contained in ZMM we may deduce that John's statement about Colfax Avenue surely must be about his home in Minneapolis MN, where sure enough www.mapquest.com shows it as a N-S street, just west of the downtown area.   In a recent letter Pirsig said of this photograph. "This could be John's house. [They] Moved to the country in late '70's." ZMM author Robert Pirsig went to Elementary School about ten blocks North of Here. The children Pirsig went to school with would have come from this neighborhood. As a child, he may have walked through this area of town.  ************************************ (Photo = 102-0246 ......  ZMM Page  = 143 ...... WayPt =  -003w)

2649 South Colfax Ave, Minneapolis
John Sutherland and his wife Sylvia, are one of the four main characters in ZMM. ”Later John mumbles something a few times, looks up and announces, "This does it—this just does the whole thing for us . . . Now we can go back for another eight years on Twenty-six-forty-nine Colfax Avenue." Sylvia says mournfully, "Let’s not talk about that."
Minneapolis MN dusk shrouds the quiet well maintained home at 2649 South Colfax Ave. From the contextual evidence contained in ZMM we may deduce that John's statement about Colfax Avenue surely must be about his home in Minneapolis MN, where sure enough www.mapquest.com shows it as a N-S street, just west of the downtown area. In a recent letter Pirsig said of this photograph. "This could be John's house. [They] Moved to the country in late '70's." ZMM author Robert Pirsig went to Elementary School about ten blocks North of Here. The children Pirsig went to school with would have come from this neighborhood. As a child, he may have walked through this area of town.
************************************ (Photo = 102-0246 ...... ZMM Page = 143 ...... WayPt = -003w)


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