Tribal Land, The Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
"… and then we are on the other side. .. We climb a long, long hill into another kind of country. .. The fences are really all gone now. No brush, no trees. The sweep of the hills is so great John’s motorcycle looks like an ant up ahead moving through the green slopes. Above the slopes outcroppings of rocks stand out overhead at the tops of the bluffs.“
5 MiW of Mobridge, ND. shows the view just over the first hill from the river, as the ZMM Route continues Northwest on Rt12. (Please turn off room lights to view this darker image.) I restrained myself from photographing a huge gambling casino just to my rear left.
....This monument to the human vice that imports itself into this empty pristine territory was to me obscene. Especially obscene In view of Narrator’s description (next photo) of this Tribal Land untouched by human activity. I did not find any “over hanging bluffs”. Perhaps they have been removed by highway widening?
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A White Blossoming Plant By US-12.

…Beyond the Highway, No Evidence of Human Activity.

…"It all has a natural tidiness. If it were abandoned land there would be a chewed-up, scruffy look, with chunks of old foundation concrete, scraps of painted sheet metal and wire, weeds that had gotten in where the sod was broken up for whatever little enterprise was attempted. None of that here. Not kept up, just never messed up in the first place. It’s just the way it always must have been. Reservation land. .. There’s no friendly motorcycle mechanic on the other side of those rocks and I’m wondering if we’re ready for this. If anything goes wrong now we’re in real trouble. .. I check the engine temperature with my hand. It’s reassuringly cool. I put in the clutch and let it coast for a second in order to hear it idling. Something sounds funny and I do it again. It takes a while to figure out that it’s not the engine at all. There’s an echo from the bluff ahead that lingers after the throttle is closed. Funny. I do this two or three times. Chris wonders what’s wrong.”

18Mi Southeast of McLaughlin, SD. Starting at the Missouri River, I searched for “bluffs” that could create an echo, but found none along Rt12.
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Elevators & Water Tower, Announce McLaughlin, SD.

….[The ZMM Narrator keeps puzzling over WHY John did not want a “shim” inserted under the his Cycle’s Handlebar Clamps, so as to tighten, and fix the loose Handlebars on John’s cycle. See page 046. In this case the Narrator was going to use a small piece of aluminum from a beer can, that was really the ideal metal, but John couldn’t …see … believe … want to believe or understand just how a => Throw-away trash, common, cheap (in the worst sense), cruddy, beer can … could fix his expensive fancy super valuable cycle!] [Out of this] " grew that old feeling I’ve talked about before, a feeling that there’s something bigger involved than is apparent on the surface. You follow these little discrepancies long enough and they sometimes open up into huge revelations. There was just a feeling on my part that this was something a little bigger than I wanted to take on without thinking about it, and I turned instead to my usual habit of trying to extract causes and effects to see what was involved that could possibly lead to such an impasse between John’s view of that lovely shim and my own. This comes up all the time in mechanical work. A hang-up. You just sit and stare and think, and search randomly for new information, and go away and come back again, and after a while the unseen factors start to emerge." In

McLaughlin, SD. Here I (Henry Gurr), also see a wooden clapboard church, painted white with bell tower, that looks just like the small town & rural churches all over my home state of Ohio! I should have taken a photo.

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Is This What the Grocery Store Looked Like On the "The Long Desolate Road"

"At one stretch in the long desolated road we see an isolated grocery store. "

Somewhere near Watauga, SD. Mark Richardson says, in his new book, that he thinks he found this store as he followed the ZMM Route. It was in Watauga, SD, a town that was half way between Macintosh and McLaughlin. Although I was not able to identify what he saw, this is the best I found. The location where I got this photo is probably some distance from Watauga, SD.
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Is This What the Grocery Store Looked Like Along The "The Long Desolate Road".?
… Perhaps Enter The Café, And Go Under The Rusty Roof,

"At one stretch in the long desolated road we see an isolated grocery store.
... Inside, in back, we find a place to sit on some packing cases and drink canned beer.
... The fatigue and backache are getting to me now. I push the packing case over to a post and lean on that.
... Chris’s expression shows he is really settling into something bad. This has been a long hard day. I told Sylvia way back in Minnesota that we could expect a slump in spirits like this on the second or third day and now it’s here. Minnesota—when was that?
... A woman, badly drunk, is buying beer for some man she’s got outside in a car. She can’t make up her mind what brand to buy and the wife of the owner waiting on her is getting mad. She still can’t decide, but then sees us, and weaves over and asks if we own the motorcycles. We nod yes. Then she wants a ride on one. I move back and let John handle this.
... He puts her off graciously, but she comes back again and again, offering him a dollar for a ride. I make some jokes about it, but they’re not funny and just add to the depression. We get out and back into the brown hills and heat again."

Watauga, SD. Mark Richardson says, in his new book, that he thinks he found this store as he followed the ZMM Route. It was in Watauga, SD, a town that was half way between Macintosh and McLaughlin. Although I was not able to identify what he saw, this story & location was found by Gary Wegner, who said “If you use “Street View” when you click on this link [below] you might be able to pinpoint the store:”
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(Photo = GoogStVu IsolatedGroceryStoreWatugaSD UnderRustyRoofByBrendasTumbleweedCafe1 ...... ZMM Page = 050 ...... WayPt = 062m ~2000ft) The Above Google Street View (GSV) Was Captured At US-12, Some~200 feet SE Of Red Pinpoint Of This Google Map.

Sunset & Clouds.
"What we have here is a conflict of visions of reality. The world as you see it right here, right now, is reality, regardless of what the scientists say it might be. That’s the way John sees it. But the world as revealed by its scientific discoveries is also reality, regardless of how it may appear, and people in John’s dimension are going to have to do more than just ignore it if they want to hang on to their vision of reality. John will discover this if his points burn out.“
MacIntosh, SD. is announced by elevator seen in the distance. A weak gust of wind sounds in my ears. Redwinged Blackbirds call in the distance. This is strangely comforting to me, despite otherwise silent lonely terrain. As the ZMM Narrator reminds us; In this isolate area, any mechanical or health problem will intrude into YOUR reality!! As was my practice, I had stopped to photograph “town arrival”. Then I realized the dramatic clouds qualified for a 360 deg panorama. Instructions will be given in the second photo next.
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Clouds & Sunset & Open Space. The buildings of the next town are seen In the distance.
"That’s really why he got upset that day when he couldn’t get his engine started. It was an intrusion on his reality. It just blew a hole right through his whole groovy way of looking at things and he would not face up to it because it seemed to threaten his whole life style. In a way he was experiencing the same sort of anger scientific people have sometimes about abstract art, or at least used to have. That didn’t fit their life style either. .. What you’ve got here, really, are two realities, one of immediate artistic appearance and one of underlying scientific explanation, and they don’t match and they don’t fit and they don’t really have much of anything to do with one another. That’s quite a situation.“
Clouds & Sunset MacIntosh, SD. These black clouds did produce a violent thunderstorm later that night. As you will see in the next days rainy day pictures, this apparently is the advanced edge of a new weather system. Although clear the next morning, took some 8 hours for the stormy cold skies to finally clear away. Ahead, were 7 miles of removed pavement and soft rutted mud. The new highway should be there now!
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Sunset & Clouds & Windmill On " One Stretch In The Long Desolate Road. “

Earlier, The ZMM Narrator while traveling along the Road Photo /\ Above /\, mentions how VERY tired they all are getting and says
….On " one stretch in the long desolate road. …. My legs have become so stiff they are aching. I hold them out one at a time and turn my foot as far to the left and to the right as it will go to stretch the leg. It helps, but then the other muscles get tired from holding the legs out. “, and about here on the road, the ZMM Narrator finishes his Chautauqua on "What we have here is a conflict of visions of reality. “

Morristown, SD. Please let me know if you have location information about the “isolated grocery store” mentioned above by Narrator.

…. When I (Henry S Gurr) travel, it is my practice to stop & take photos of Sunset Scenery. Thus at a rise in the road, when my eyes lay on the /\ above /\ shown Windmill, AND a wider place at a dirt side road, I stop here to “shoot” the Sunset, but then realize with all the dramatic clouds, good place for a panorama series before the last glow of the sunset winks out.
…. To see a Panorama of the /\ Above /\ Photo of Road & Sunset, Click Here & => 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 fourth 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 fourth Gallery Picture)

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A Petrified Wood Wonderland and City Park.
"By the time we reach Lemmon we are really aching tired. At a bar we hear about a campground to the south. John wants to camp in a park in the middle of Lemmon, a comment that sounds strange and angers Chris greatly.“
City Park, Lemmon, SD. is seen here, next morning with last night’s rain still evident on the streets. Is this the “park in the middle of Lemmon” where John Sutherland wanted to camp? lt was dark when I arrived in Lemmon, so I went directly to the "campground to the south”. This is at the Liewellyn Jones Recreation Area about 10 miles South on Rt73. As I started down Rt73, there was a big sign: “NO GAS FOR 70 MILES”. Truly this is semi-arid area of our country has sparse population and is far away from parts and repair services. Come prepared to deal with emergencies in your health and your vehicle. But be assured there will be plenty of friendly people who will help in any way they can. A word to the wise: One of your best preparations for traveling in this (or any) place, would be learning and practicing “maintenance” as advocated in ZMM itself.
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Main Street & Business District Where Our ZMM Voyagers Went Shopping For Camping Supplies. The City Park Where John Suggested Camping Is In Distance At Left of Street.
"I’m more tired now than I can remember having been in a long time. The others too. But we drag ourselves through a supermarket, pick up whatever groceries come to mind and with some difficulty pack them onto the cycles. The sun is so far down we’re running out of light. It’ll be dark in an hour. We can’t seem to get moving. I wonder, are we dawdling, or what? "C’mon, Chris, let’s go," I say. .. "Don’t holler at me. I’m ready.“ The
Business District, Lemmon, SD. The City Park, shown in the previous picture, is in distance where you see trees on both sides of the street. My Lemmon, SD. photos, with wet streets, were actually taken the next morning after I experienced the thunderstorm at the Shadehill Reservoir. (Shadehill Reservoir Campground photos now follow.)
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View of Lake and Campground Where Pirsig, Chris, John and Sylvia Camped the Second Night of Their Trip.
"We drive down a county road from Lemmon, exhausted, for what seems a long, long time, but can’t be too long because the sun is still above the horizon. The campsite is deserted. Good. But there is less than a half-hour of sun and no energy left. This is the hardest now. .. I try to get unpacked as fast as possible but am so stupid with exhaustion I just set everything by the camp road without seeing what a bad spot it is. Then I see it is too windy. This is a High Plains wind. It is semidesert here, everything burned up and dry except for a lake, a large reservoir of some sort below us. The wind blows from the horizon across the lake and hits us with sharp gusts. It is already chilly. There are some scrubby pines back from the road about twenty yards … "

Campground Road, Liewellyn Jones Recreation Area, SD.
Directions to get this photo location: => Go South from Lemmon, ND, cross into S. Dakota on Rt 73 going some 20 miles, till you go down a grade and over a causeway with a lake on both sides. As you come up from the lake level to the top of the grade, turn right (West) into the park. Almost immediately you will see a right turn (North) into a campground. Within 300 feet you will be driving along the edge of drop-off to lake. (If you get to the town of Shadehill, SD or a sign for Shadehill Reservoir, you have gone too far South. (Thanks to Lee Glover for this correction.)

One Of Robert Pirsig’s 12 1968 Color Pictures, Shows This Same Reservoir In The Distance. However, in contrast to my picture /\ above /\, Dr. Pirsig’s picture shows the reservoir and campground as relatively new. Please return here to these ZMMquality Photos after viewing one Pirsig photo.
…. Click Here: And AFTER this Albums Page Comes Up => Click on the TOP Album Re Pirsig’s 1968 Photos. => Then scroll down to the fourth Gallery Picture. THEN AFTER the Photo comes up, Click On It For Largest Size. THEN compare this landscape /\ Above /\ Photo, with that seen Pirsig’s Photos Of His Original 1968 Trip.

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A Fire Place Made From Petrified-Wood-Logs, View of Lake, and Last Remaining Glow of Sunset:
….At Same Campground, AND About Same Degree of Darkness, Where Pirsig, Chris, John and Sylvia Camped the Second Night of Their Trip.
The wind blows from the horizon across the lake and hits us with sharp gusts. It is already chilly. .. I see between trips that Sylvia is making a real effort at setting things up for cooking, but she’s as tired as I am. .. The sun goes down. .. John has gathered wood but it’s too big and the wind is so gusty it’s hard to start. It needs to be splintered into kindling. I go back over to the scrub pines, hunt around through the twilight for the machete, but it’s already so dark in the pines I can’t find it. I need the flashlight. I look for it, but it’s too dark to find that either.
Campground Road, Shadehill Reservoir, Liewellyn Jones Recreation Area, SD.
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…..NOTE: While you are at The Campground, you can see the traffic on South Dakota Rt73, to East about ½ mile.

As you see in /\ Above /\ Photo AND mentioned (and shown in Fifth Photos Previously), These Black Clouds Did Produce A Violent Thunderstorm Later That Night, But Contrary To The ZMM Narrator, The Mosquitos Were Relatively Few.
….The ZMM Narrator mentions they were badly swollen from mosquito bite the next morning. This is possibly because back in 1968, the lake was relatively new: Given time to stock the lake with fish, they will eventually eat up the Mosquito Larva, and remove the pain, literally. Because I (Henry S Gurr) camped here (June 18 2002), prior to the onset of hot weather, the few mosquitoes that came after me were quite manageable. The same is true in Summer 2006, when my Son David & I again camped there, minus any rain or storm. ((To view dark photos, turn off lights near your computer, and increase screen brightness.))

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Campground & My Tent, Which Is At The Campground Where The ZMM Narrator, Chris and John & Sylvia Sutherland Stayed In July 1968.

…"A gibbous moon comes up from the horizon beyond the pines, and by its slow, patient arc across the sky I measure hour after hour of semisleep. Too much fatigue. The moon and strange dreams and sounds of mosquitoes and odd fragments of memory become jumbled and mixed in an unreal lost landscape in which the moon is shining and yet there is a bank of fog and I am riding a horse and Chris is with me and the horse jumps over a small stream that runs through the sand toward the ocean somewhere beyond. And then that is broken . . . .And then it reappears.
…And in the fog there appears an intimation of a figure. It disappears when I look at it directly, but then reappears in the corner of my vision when I turn my glance. I am about to say something, to call to it, to recognize it, but then do not, knowing that to recognize it by any gesture or action is to give it a reality which it must not have. But it is a figure I recognize even though I do not let on. It is Phædrus.
…Evil spirit. Insane. From a world without life or death.
….The figure fades and I hold panic down . . . tight . . . not rushing it . . . just letting it sink in . . . not believing it, not disbelieving it . . . but the hair crawls slowly on the back of my skull . . . he is calling Chris, is that it? . . . Yes?“ . . . End Chapter 5.

Campground, Shadehill Reservoir Lake, SD. where the Petrified-Log Fire-palace of previous photo, is illuminated by the pink glow at left. The campground has been much improved since 1968 and is now a very nice place! The temperature was good for camping and I experienced only 1 or 2 mosquitos.
…However, I experienced a violent thunderstorm that night, which produced much close-up lightning & monster wind gusts!
…I nearly always camped my entire ZMM Research Trip, from Minneapolis to San Francisco, and all my campgrounds, including this one, were good experiences, except for this storm.
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How Can Plants Survive the Dry and Heat of this Tortured Land?
"… it’s already too hot to sleep. … Beyond the pines are burned grass and clumps of earth and sand so bright they are hard to look at. The heat, silence, and barren hills and blank sky give a feeling of great, intense space. .. Not a bit of moisture in the sky. Today’s going to be a scorcher. …"
Shadehill Reservoir, SD. This photo was taken in the "badlands", some 70 miles ahead. Most of my photos generally show lots of green vegetation in this area of the Dakotas and Eastern Montana. This is a considerable contrast to what the Narrator emphasizes again and again in ZMM. He repeatedly says how desolate and dry and burnt-up this landscape is. Especially from Lemmon, SD. to Locate, MT. Remember that Pirsig arrived at this reservoir soon after the construction of this campground, There would have been little recovery of the grass and thus would lots of eroded bare earth, with rain deposited sand in places. Also remember that Pirsig came through nearly a month later than I did and well after water from winter snow and spring rain could have been completely exhausted. Yes, “burnt to a crisp” landscape could, in addition, be the finishing result of the “duesey of a heat wave” they experienced as they traveled from here into Eastern Montana. The facts do fit Pirsig’s writing concerning the Narrator’s “scorcher” heat wave. An 108 Degree Fahrenheit heat wave, in EXACTLY this same area, IS confirmed in the 9 July 1968 weather record!
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The Next Morning, At The Shadehill Reservoir Lake Campground, The Super Clear Sky And Super Dry Arid Landscape, Are The Environment For The Narrator’s Discovery Of Stripped Threads On His Cycle,

…Although The Narrator’s Problem With ""Thread’s Stripped In The Chain Adjustment,"” May Seem An UN-important Problem, We Eventually See That =>

…This Starts An Important Explanation For The "Back Up.” Problem. AND Leads A Page Later To A Metaphoric Bridge Connections (MBC).

…"While loading the remaining gear on the luggage rack I see with surprise that the rear tire is worn way down. All that speed and heavy load and heat on the road yesterday must have caused it. The chain is also sagging and I get out the tools to adjust it and then groan.
…"What’s the matter," John says.
…"Thread’s stripped in the chain adjustment."
…I remove the adjusting bolt and examine the threads. "It’s my own fault for trying to adjust it once without loosening the axle nut. The bolt is good." I show it to him. "It looks like the internal threading in the frame that’s stripped."
…John stares at the wheel for a long time. "Think you can make it into town?"
…"Oh, yeah, sure. You can run it forever. It just makes the chain difficult to adjust."
…He watches carefully as I take up the rear axle nut until it’s barely snug, tap it sideways with a hammer until the chain slack is right, then tighten up the axle nut with all my might to keep the axle from slipping forward later on, and replace the cotter pin. Unlike the axle nuts on a car, this one doesn’t affect bearing tightness.
…"How did you know how to do that?" he asks.
…"You just have to figure it out."
…"I wouldn’t know where to start," he says.
…I think to myself, That’s the problem, all right, where to start. To reach him you have to back up and back up, and the further back you go, the further back you see you have to go, until what looked like a small problem of communication turns into a major philosophic enquiry. That, I suppose, is why the Chautauqua. “

NOTE1: In the above ZMM passage, especially notice 4 cases of => "back up.“ AND then notice how a full & necessary "back up“ explanation can lead to => "a small problem of communication [which] turns into a major philosophic enquiry. That, I suppose, is why the Chautauqua.“

NOTE2: This above last sentence is essentially, how the initial writing of ZMM book got started. Author Robert Pirsig’s first writing, on several paper pages, was originally to help John understand how to do his own cycle maintenance. However because "back up’s.“kept happening, the “several pages” kept multiplying, until ZMM was finished, as we now see it!

Campground, Shadehill Reservoir Lake, SD. The campground has been much improved since **********************

… In His Book ''Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance,” (ZMM), Author Robert Pirsig, Wants Us To Remember That ANY TIME There Is A Same “Idea”, Applied To A Different Circumstance, A Page Later. We Should =>
..1) Take notice and actively, poetically see the Metaphoric Bridge Connections (in this case really an Analogy Connection), either way, between the a) The first discussion and b) The second discussion.
..2) We should realize these MBC’s (And Analogy Connections) are carefully and purposefully put here by Author Robert Pirsig to help reader understanding or for other emphasis, which in this case is the "Back Up.” Problem. .
..3) In fact, it is very likely that Author Robert Pirsig chose present the a) and b) this way, is so that the descriptions of a) & b) would effectively two-way illuminate (by MBC or Analogy) each of the respective topic “ideas”.
..4) For example, one of the two different “types” of Metaphoric Bridge Connections, which Author Robert Pirsig Wants The ZMM Reader To See, Is IN The Above ZMM Passage, which has the FIRST HALF Of An Important Metaphoric Bridge Connections, and is explained as follows =>
… In this above ZMM Passage, we especially notice 4 cases of => "back up.“

..5) Then one page later (The SECOND HALF Of An Important Metaphoric Bridge Connection), where the Narrator TWICE says "back up.“ as follows =>
“ I want to talk about the underlying form of the world of underlying form itself…. but before I can use it honestly I have to back up and say what it is and means, and that is a long story in itself. Part of this back-up problem.…."
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Please See The NEXT Photo, Which Gives A Full Narrator Passage To Show The Larger Context Of Passage Next Above.
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Continued From The Previous Photo => An Important Explanation For The Thistle Prickly "Back Up.” Problem =>

…Which Leads A Page Later To A Metaphoric Bridge Connection. (In This Case An Analogy Connection.)

…Below Is Presented A Full ZMM Narrator Passage To Show The Larger Context Of Passage, Which Has => (The SECOND HALF Of An Important Metaphoric Bridge Connection), Where =>

…In The Last Sentence The Narrator TWICE Says "Back Up.“


…" Back in Minnesota when we were traveling through some marshland I did some talking about the "shapes" of technology, the "death force" that the Sutherlands seem to be running from. I want to move now in the opposite direction from the Sutherlands, toward that force and into its center. In doing so we will be entering Phædrus’ world, the only world he ever knew, in which all understanding is in terms of underlying form.
…The world of underlying form is an unusual object of discussion because it is actually a mode of discussion itself. You discuss things in terms of their immediate appearance or you discuss them in terms of their underlying form, and when you try to discuss these modes of discussion you get involved in what could be called a platform problem. You have no platform from which to discuss them other than the modes themselves.
…Previously I was discussing his world of underlying form, or at least the aspect of it called technology, from an external view. Now I think it’s right to talk about that world of underlying form from its own point of view.
I want to talk about the underlying form of the world of underlying form itself.
…To do this, first of all, a dichotomy is necessary, but before I can use it honestly I have to back up and say what it is and means, and that is a long story in itself. Part of this back-up problem.“

NOTE1: The above ZMM passages are given so the ZMM Reader can see another example of Author Robert Pirsig’s Metaphoric Bridge Connection. (In this case an Analogy Connection.)
…From here in ZMM, the Narrator’s presentation for approximately the next six pages, is his "Back Up,”.but for the ZMM reader, this is hard to see. (This Ends Chapter 6.)

NOTE2: There Is A THIRD Discussion Of "Back Up” (Spelled "Backup”) Which Is Near The Start Of ZMM Chapter 24.
…Here of course, the ZMM Reader should remember (By Metaphoric Bridge Connection) the previous two examples, and thus have increased understanding.

Campground, Shadehill Reservoir Lake, SD. The campground has been much improved since 1968 and is now a very nice place!
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Entrance Sign for the Business District Lemmon, SD.
….Look Close: The Sign Frame Is constructed Entirely of Petrified Wood !!

"On the road again the dry air cools off the slight sweat from that chain job and I’m feeling good for a while. As soon as the sweat dries off though, it’s hot. Must be in the eighties already. There’s no traffic on this road, and we’re moving right along. It’s a traveling day. … Page 062 I see we are at the left turn onto US 12 and John has pulled up for gas. ... The thermometer by the door of the station reads 92 degrees. "Going to be another rough one today," … When the tanks are filled we head across the street into a restaurant for coffee." “

….The /\ Above /\ Photo Shows The Junction Where Rt73 arrives from South at Rt12. Lemmon, SD.
….Lemmon town folk are clearly very proud of their Fantastic Petrified Wood Creations In Their Sign Frame Shown /\ Above /\ and at their City Park. The building seen at the left, of the Sign, is part of a Gas Station. Thus the gas station reported by the Narrator is thus still there! This gas station has a quick-shop for YOUR coffee and doughnuts when you come this way!
….The ZMM Narrator’s "Coffee-Donut Place “, may have been in one of the several abandoned buildings nearby and on opposite side of Rt12.

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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 Phædrus.“

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 Phædrus.“

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 Phædrus.“ 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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