Continued fm Previous Photo => “We Are In A Herreid Western Town.” …. “Everything Is More Run-Down And Mechanical-Looking …”

~7:40 am Wed 14 Aug: Henry Gurr Experiences This => Google Street View Of 1St Street & US 83, Herreid, SD.

As Robert Pirsig says in ZMM => ". At Herreid, John disappears for a drink while Sylvia and Chris and I find some shade in a park and try to rest. It isn’t restful. A change has taken place and I don’t know quite what it is. The streets of this town are broad, much broader than they need be, and there is a pallor of dust in the air. Empty lots here and there between the buildings have weeds growing in them. The sheet metal equipment sheds and water tower are like those of previous towns but more spread out. Everything is more run-down and mechanical-looking, and sort of randomly located. Gradually I see what it is. Nobody is concerned anymore about tidily conserving space. The land isn’t valuable anymore. We are in a Western town. ."

….US 83, A Major North- South Truck Route, Passes Through A Town Name Herreid, SD. , Which (As Seen ZMM Passage Above), ZMM Author Pirsig Poetically Applies As “So Very Horrible” Herreid! , because for him (and the ZMM Narrator) this town, the heat, the crummy "run-down mechanical" western town feeling, and even the road pavement itself, compounded with all the big heavy semi trucks on this road were => Altogether => Just Herreid ! (In Other Words Everything Here Is So Very “Horrible”! )
…….AS IS POETICALLY & METAPHORICALLY APPLIED HERE AT HERREID, SD,
… Author Robert Pirsig throughout ZMM, regularly, uses town names “poetically”, to (with poetic metaphor) relate or express some characteristic of the town, Together With Metaphorically, the TOWN's NAME, and in turn use this Metaphoric Content to AMPLIFY the ZMM Travel Narrative, most often relation to His Chautauqua Lecture. It’s fun to see him do these “Metaphoric Bridge Connections”!!
….Many of these “Metaphoric Bridge Connections” (MBC) BETWEEN Pirsig’s Travel Narrative and His Chautauqua, are pointed out & discussed in Henry Gurr’s 2002 ZMM Route Photos, All Four Parts. For An DISCUSSION Of METAPHORIC BRIDGE CONNECTIONS, With EXAMPLES ((Along With “Why Is ZMM So Factual?)) Click Here & AFTER Page Comes Up, Scroll Down To ….Metaphorical …. .

The ABOVE, Whole ZMM Book Scene Is Poetically So “Herreid “!! BUT EVER MORE-SO Because John in Real Life Was A Horrible Alcoholic, AND Narrator, Chris, & Sylvia have to WAIT in the HEAT, not knowing WHEN John will come back!!. :-((
END Narrator’s “So Herreid” For This Part Of SOUTH Dakota.

Cont Next.Photo => A PANORAMA VIEW Of => A North Dakota Corn Field, & Pothole Lake, 4 Miles West of Hague, ND.


Photo File = GoogStVuAug2009 Map1stSt at US83 LookingSW ZmmRouteTown HerriedSD.jpg
… Posted 19 Oct 2020. Revised 23 Oct & 25 Oct & 22 Nov 2020.