The Horses Lose Interest in Me and Move Off to the Southeast

“John up ahead is speeding faster and faster. I give up on him and slow it down to fifty-five. Unless you’re just looking for trouble in this heat you don’t run tires at eighty-five. A blowout on this stretch would really be it. .. I suppose they took what I said as a kind of rebuke but I didn’t have that in mind. I’m no more comfortable than they are in this heat but there’s no point in dwelling on it. All day while I’ve been thinking and talking about Phædrus they must have been thinking about how bad all this is. That’s what’s really wearing them down. The thought.”
Somewhere after Baker MT Here’s another opportunity to study the vegetation and think about “the will to survive” in this harsh land. Finding no sugar lump or other hand-out, these horses rapidly move away. They get this far, before my electronic camera is ready.
.... No doubt they are responding to Quality, and can do so neither too fast …. nor … too slow! I was going to say “by definition here”, but this is not allowed as we learn in ZMM.

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(Photo = 104-0472c ...... ZMM Page = 073...... Photo is actually at WayPt = 088w, 20 Mi W of Baker MT)