Late Evening Traffic on Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis
"John and Sylvia are not mass people and neither are most of the others going their way. It is against being a mass person that they seem to be revolting. And they feel that technology has got a lot to do with the forces that are trying to turn them into mass people and they don’t like it. So far it’s still mostly a passive resistance, flights into the rural areas when they are possible and things like that, but it doesn’t always have to be this passive." (John Sutherland and his wife Sylvia, are one of the four main characters in ZMM.)
Minneapolis, MN is where I was halted by congested late evening heavy traffic on Hennepin Avenue (a major highway) at the intersection of Colfax Avenue. In a recent letter, Mr. Pirsig said of the two photos in this composite photo: “memories came crashing down!” He went on to say that as a child he rode the streetcar on Hennepin to his Elementary School, which was at that time, located just to the west of this intersection. He, for many years, must have here waited daily for the streetcar to take him home.
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