Grain Stores & Colloid Plant With Mining Lift Towers in Distance.
….While Still back in Lemmon, SD. The ZMM Narrator said =>
"When we have finished the coffee and are outside again the heat is so ferocious we move off on the cycles as fast as possible. Again there is that momentary coolness, but it disappears. The sun makes the burned grass and sand so bright I have to squint to cut down glare. This US 12 is old, bad highway. The broken concrete is tar-patched and bumpy. Road signs indicate detours ahead. On either side of the road are occasional worn sheds and shacks and roadside stands that have accumulated through the years. The traffic is heavy now. I’m just as happy to be thinking about the rational, analytical, classical world of Phćdrus.“
Gascoyne, ND. …As seen in the photo, US-12 is now in excellent condition, but the glare of the morning heat is also evident!
…In /\ Above /\ Photo, note clear deep blue sky. A Cold Front came through previous evening, followed the rain I experienced. But later that next day, heavy stormy clouds came back, so I was actually cold, until after I got to Eastern Montana.
… As mentioned by the ZMM Narrator, I also observed the “occasional worn sheds and shacks and roadside stands that have accumulated through the years.“
…. To See A Panorama That Includes /\ Above /\ Photo => After this Gallery Albums Page Comes Up, Scroll Down To & Read Description Of => “Album 360 Degree Panoramas for Book "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" THEN Click On The Small Photo, and AFTER this Small Photos Page Comes Up => Click on the Fifth narrow strip photo. AFTER this Panorama Comes Up, you will have to use the “Click&Drag” sliders at Bottom & Right to see the parts of photo off screen. :
…(Alternate: If you have already viewed a panorama in a second (new) browser window, simply switch to it and choose the first Gallery Picture)
DATE-LINE March 16, 2023 by Henry Gurr: Concerning Metaphoric Bridge Connections (MBC), That Are Found In The Book ''Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance'' (ZMM).
…The ZMM Reader should always be alert to Author Robert Pirsig’s purposeful arrangement of MBC’s such as the following topics => “tough weather & travel & landscape conditions”, which are “Next Paragraph Abrupt Switch” . immediately prior to the upcoming important narrative about "the classical world of Phaedrus“
Please Notice That The Following Italic Phrase => .
… "again the heat is so ferocious. …. This US-12 is old, bad highway. The broken concrete is tar-patched and bumpy. Road signs indicate detours ahead. On either side of the road are occasional worn sheds and shacks and roadside stands that have accumulated through the years. The traffic is heavy now. “
Is Placed Immediately Before (And Thus Metaphoric Bridge Connect To) The Italic Phrase =>
"I’m just as happy to be thinking about the rational, analytical, classical world of Phćdrus.“
EXPLANATION1:
… As the ZMM Reader continues to study the next ~7 pages in ZMM, they should always be remembering the multiple MBCs Author Robert Pirsig has placed for us. AND in the reader’s minds, let the awful landscape “stage set” the corresponding conditions in "the rational, analytical, classical world of Phćdrus.“ AND also always implied is the reverse.
…At the end of these 7 pages, IN THIS EXACT => "heat is so ferocious. …. old, bad highway.“ that (Metaphoric Bridge Connection), the Narrator chooses to tell us => " And a slip of paper from the probate court telling me that some person was committed as insane. Did they mean me? “
EXPLANATION2:
… In His Book “''Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance,” (ZMM)., Author Robert Pirsig, Wants Us To Remember That ANY TIME There Is. “A Next Paragraph Abrupt Switch”. Either Way, Between Chautauqua & Travel Narrative, We Then Are To =>
..1) Take notice and actively, poetically see the Metaphoric Bridge Connections (MBC), either way, between the a) Chautauqua Lecture and b) Travel Narrative Scenery+Actions...
..2) We should realize these MBC’s are carefully and purposefully put here by Author Robert Pirsig for this very emphasis.
..3) In fact, it is very likely that the physical landscape locations along the ZMM Route, were chosen for this very purpose. This is because these descriptions above a) & b) would effectively two-way illuminate (by MBC) each of the respective Chautauqua Topics AND Travel Narrative+Actions, that Mr Pirsig wanted to present in his book.
..4) For example, this is seen in TWO different “types” of Metaphoric Bridge Connections, which Author Robert Pirsig wants The ZMM Reader to see =>
…A) In ZMM after the Narrator finishes discussing the ''Crisis of the Three Mathematical Geometries, '' there is a Next Paragraph “Abrupt Switch” to the Travel Narrative, and actions in the town of Three Forks, MT.
…B) In ZMM there are Metaphorical Telegraphs For Special Emphasis or Added Relationships” such as at The Lochsa River Canyon Idaho Campground, where The Narrator says a seeming unimportant side note => “Some birds fly up from the shadowy hill into the sunlight and I watch them until they’re out of sight. ” But the alert ZMM Reader must realize this is another of many very important Master Motifs, where this is => Author Robert Pirsig’s way of telling us (Master Motif Metaphorical Telegraph), what has been going wrong in the Narrator’s communication with Chris. And this seeming unimportant side note, is actually Author Pirsig’s way to tell us as readers, to know that he knows, that this treatment of Chris is wrong, and chooses these Master Motif ways to tell us this.
Click Here To See ZMMQ Gallery Photo & Discussion Of Chris &The Narrator’s Lochsa River Canyon Idaho Campground.
..5) AND we are to feel these Metaphoric Bridge Connections (MBC) emotionally!
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Click Here For More Information => Concerning Analogy, Metaphors, and Metaphoric Bridge Connections (MBC), That Are Found In The Book “''Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance'' ” (ZMM).
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