Photos Illustrate Pirsig's "Zen Art Motorcycle Maintenance" :: Part I: The Illustrated "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Chapters 1 thru 7.

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. ************************************ (Photo = 104-0426 ...... ZMM Page = 059 ...... WayPt = 071`\|f\|' 2577ft) Viewed: 3602 times.	Wednesday, July 10, 2024: … Black Angus Cattle Pay Us No Mind, As We Drive On By! NOTE: About two minutes after seeing the above Angus Cattle, the SECOND NEXT Photo was taken, And you can find where this was located, by studying the Satellite View, Blue Link, below the SECOND NEXT Photo. Along US-12, About 1 Mile East Of Cross Road Rt-9, Half Way From Lemon, SD to Hettinger, ND. File = DSC 0161 PhotoStHGUpldAug29.2025#3LemonSDHettingerND BlackAngusCattle Resoz1764 Viewed: 29 times.	Wednesday, July 10, 2024: … About 1 Minute After Seeing The Black Angus Cattle Of A Previous Photo, We Saw These Beautiful Fields Of Yellow Blooming Flax. …In The Distance, Notice The 4 Shiny Metal Grain Stores. The NEXT Photo Shows A Closer View. NOTE: Two minutes after seeing the above Angus, the NEXT Photo was taken, And you can find where this was, by studying the Satellite View, Blue Link, below this NEXT Photo. Along US-12, About Half Mile East Of Cross Road Rt-9, Half Way From Lemon, SD to Hettinger, ND. File = DSC_0164 Resize1504x1000 ~154KB jpg Viewed: 56 times.
Wednesday, July 10, 2024: … On A Very Beautiful Sunny Day, 4 Grain Stores Along The ZMM Route, On The Way To Miles City, MT. …In The Distance, The Yellow Is A Field Of Flax. This Is Seen Along The Highway Here, On Both Sides. …Google finds this => "Dakota yellow Fields Flax", likely refers to the Gold ND flax variety, released by North Dakota State University (NDSU). It's a high-yielding, yellow-seeded flax variety known for its excellent yield, good oil content, and resistance to flax rust and wilt. Along US-12, 1/5 Mile West Of Cross Road Rt-9, Half Way From Lemon, SD to Hettinger, ND. To See Where The /\ABOVE/\ Photo was taken. Click Here. And AFTER This Satellite View Comes Up, See 4 Round Grain Stores, At Center Screen. NOTE: This is the last June 2024 Photo along ZMM Route, for ZMM Part One. After you finish viewing the remainder of this Photo Album, you will see instructions for advancing to => ZMM Part Two, Photo Album. File = DSC 0173 4ShinyMetalGrainStors 2.25MB Resize1504x1000 154KB Viewed: 57 times.	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! ********************** 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). ************************* (Photo = 104-0436sr ...... ZMM Page = 063 ...... WayPt = 075`\|x\|' 2820ft) Viewed: 3285 times.	Buildings In Distance Announce the Next Town. "Heat is everywhere now. I can’t ignore it anymore. The air is like a furnace blast so hot that my eyes under the goggles feel cool compared to the rest of my face. My hands are cool but the gloves have big black spots from perspiration on the back surrounded by white streaks of dried salt. .. On the road ahead a crow tugs on some carrion and flies up slowly as we approach. It looks like a lizard on the road, dry and stuck to the tar. .. On the horizon appears an image of buildings, shimmering slightly. I look down at the map and it must be Bowman. I think about ice water and air conditioning.“ Bowman, ND. As my photos show, all of Rt12 from Mobridge, SD. to Miles City, MT, is now excellent highway. See caption three photos previous for more about the factual 9 July 1968 “record heat wave” the Narrator describes in the next 30 pages of ZMM. ************************************ (Photo = 104-0441 ...... ZMM Page = 067 ...... WayPt = 076`\|f\|' 2965ft) Viewed: 2992 times.
Business District and Big J Restaurant "On the street and sidewalks of Bowman we see almost no one, even though plenty of parked cars show they’re here. All inside. We swing the machines into an angled parking place with a tight turn that points them outward, for when we’re ready to go.“ Bowman, ND. Where people at the Big J Restaurant were very friendly and helpful with my ZMM Route research. If you visit this (and any) restaurant, mid-morning on, be sure to strike up a conversation with the retirees, who will welcome the chance to tell you local history and sights. Also be sure to tell any restaurant/hotel/store staff that you are following the ZMM route. Once the motels, restaurants, gas stations, stores along the ZMM Route see there is a steady flow of ZMM enthusiastic customers, they will start to assemble ZMM related local information. This may help in historical preservation and keep these (and other historic ZMM related buildings along the ZMM Route) for future generations! ************************************ (Photo = 104-0443c ...... ZMM Page = 067 ...... WayPt = 077`\|u\|' 2960ft) Viewed: 3369 times.	A Lone Elderly Man with Broad-Brimmed Hat. "A lone, elderly person wearing a broad-brimmed hat watches us put the cycles on their stands and remove helmets and goggles. .. "Hot enough for you?" he asks. His expression is blank. .. John shakes his head and says, "Gawd!" .. The expression, shaded by the hat, becomes almost a smile. .. "What is the temperature?" John asks… "Hundred and two," he says, "last I saw. Should go to hundred and four.".. He asks us how far we have come and we tell him and he nods with a kind of approval. "That’s a long way," he says. Then he asks about the machines. .. The beer and air conditioning are calling, but we don’t break away. We just stand there in the hundred-and-two sun talking to this person. He is a stockman, retired, says this is pretty much ranch country around here … “ Big J Restaurant, Bowman, ND. When I walk up to the Big J Restaurant, camera in hand, I encounter this Lone Elderly Man. This is by pure coincidence! This is almost too good to believe. Since he exactly fits the above passage I ask him to pause for this photo. ************************************ (Photo = 104-0444c ...... ZMM Page = 067 ...... WayPt = 077`\|u\|' 2960ft) Viewed: 3538 times.	Good Food! Good Service! Cautious, But Ultimately Friendly, People. "… and he used to own a cycle years ago. It pleases me that he should want to talk about his Henderson [1925 era motorcycle] in this hundred-and-two sun. We talk about it for a while, with growing impatience from John and Sylvia and Chris, and when we finally say good-bye he says he is glad to have met us and his expression is still blank but we sense that he really meant it. He walks away with a kind of slow dignity in the hundred-and-two sun. … John and Sylvia look really out of it. … The waitress comes for the order and that snaps them out of it a little, … An image of the elderly man outside in the wide-brimmed hat comes back to me. "Think what it was like around here before air conditioning," I say.“ Big J Restaurant, Bowman, ND. Here is where I explain my ZMM research and ask about the history of the Big J Restaurant. In response to my queries, and un-be-knownst to me, local resident Les Snavely was summoned. Mr Snavely (in photo /\ above /\), who is himself a ZMM enthusiast, said the “lone elderly person” in ZMM was likely Bowman resident, Mr. Claude White, who DID own a Henderson! ....Mr. Snavely should know! He is an Antique Motorcycle Enthusiast. He is known all over USA for his expert knowledge (and extensive collection) of old cycles. …DATE-LINE: February 25, 2021. by Henry Gurr. This Photo Caption for ~~17 years said Be sure to ask for Mr Snavely at The Big J !! ….However, this can no longer be. Big J Restaurant is under new management and has moved to another location. …And sadly we must say => Mr Les R Snavely passed away Oct 15, 2020: His Obituary gives a full life sketch and a nice photo of him. ….To See A Panorama For ~10 miles West of Bowman, ND. … After this Gallery Albums Page Comes Up, Click On The Small Photo, and AFTER this Small Photos Page Comes Up => Click on the Sixth narrow strip photo. : & …. (Alternate: If you have already viewed a panorama in a second (new) browser window, simply switch to it and choose the first Gallery Picture) ************************************ (Photo = 104-0446c ...... ZMM Page = 067 ...... WayPt = 077`\|u\|' 2960ft) Viewed: 3951 times.
Layers of Light Grey Volcanic Dust In ….The Bad Lands Southeastern North Dakota. …."Miles later and the heat is just ferocious. Sunglasses and goggles are not enough for this glare. You need a welder’s mask. .. The High Plains break up into washed-out and gullied hills. It is all bright whitish tan. Not a blade of grass anywhere. Just scattered weed stalks and rocks and sand. The black of the highway is a relief to look at so I stare down at it and study how the blur whizzes by underfoot. Beside it I see the left exhaust pipe has picked up a bluer color than it has ever had before. I spit on my glove tips, touch it and can see the sizzle. Not good. .. It’s important now to just live with this and not fight it mentally—mind control.“ Photos for Ten miles East of Marmarth, ND. Click Here For More Views Of Badlands And How To Google For Links To Maps And Aerial Views Over This Area. ‘THEN AFTER this Gallery Albums Page Comes Up, Scroll Down To & Read Description Of => AFTER this Photo Comes Up, you will have to use the “Click&Drag” sliders at Bottom & Right to see the parts of photo off screen. : ************************* (Photo = Summer2006 0342 ...... ZMM Page = 068 ...... WayPt = 077i) Viewed: 2807 times.	The Badlands of Southwestern North Dakota Seem To Be Caused By a Considerable Layer of Volcanic Ash. "What has become an urgent necessity is a way of looking at the world that does violence to neither of these two kinds of understanding [Classical & Romantic] and unites them into one. Such an understanding will not reject sand-sorting or contemplation of unsorted sand for its own sake. Such an understanding will instead seek to direct attention to the endless landscape from which the sand is taken. … To understand what he [Phædrus] was trying to do it’s necessary to see that part of the landscape, inseparable from it, which must be understood, is a figure in the middle of it, sorting sand into piles. To see the landscape without seeing this figure is not to see the landscape at all. To reject that part of the Buddha that attends to the analysis of motorcycles is to miss the Buddha entirely.“ Ten miles East of Marmarth, ND. The Narrator discusses the dry lifeless processes of science and philosophical analysis. ************************************ (Photo = ...... Summer2006 0349 ...... ZMM Page = 070 WayPt = 077m) Viewed: 2959 times.	The Narrator Continues His Discussion of the Dry Lifeless Processes Of Science And Philosophical Analysis. "There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to ask that question is to look in the right direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. About the Buddha that exists independently of any analytic thought much has been said...some would say too much, and would question any attempt to add to it. But about the Buddha that exists within analytic thought, and gives that analytic thought its direction, virtually nothing has been said, and there are historic reasons for this. But history keeps happening, and it seems no harm and maybe some positive good to add to our historical heritage with some talk in this area of discourse.“ Ten miles East of, Marmarth, ND. ************************************ (Photo = Summer2006 0351 ...... ZMM Page = 070 ...... WayPt = 077n) Viewed: 3028 times.
Death-Birth Continuity. …" [By the time Mark Twain] had mastered the analytic knowledge needed to pilot the Mississippi River, he discovered the river had lost its beauty. Something is always killed. But what is less noticed in the arts...something is always created too. And instead of just dwelling on what is killed it’s important also to see what’s created and to see the process as a kind of death-birth continuity that is neither good nor bad, but just is. .. We pass through a town called Marmarth but John doesn’t stop even for a rest and so we go on.“ Bad Lands around Marmarth, ND. In the above passage, the narrator dwells on death and killing, which (Metaphoric Bridge Connection), “fits” this surrounding very real harsh terrain. …And here, ALSO notice how the town atmosphere, and town’s evident abandonment (MBC), fits the Narrators description of the surrounding harsh terrain and the “death-birth continuity” of above passage. … Even the name Marmarth poetically sounds (Metaphoric Bridge Connection), malicious, maladaptive, plus rhymes with harmful. …Moreover, You Should Study How The Lived Road Experience Of The Narrator, Chris And The Sutherlands, reflects and poetically amplifies the painful telling of this terrible wrenching desolate portion of Phaedrus’ life, as follows => …At the end of these 7 pages, in this "heat is so ferocious. …. old, bad highway.“ we are told => " And a slip of paper from the probate court telling me that some person was committed as insane. Did they mean me? “ …The ZMM passage above is part of ~7 pages, where there are multiple Metaphoric Bridge Connections (MBC)s, that 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. ************************ (Photo = 104-0458c ...... ZMM Page = 071 After ...... WayPt = 079`\|w\|' ft) Viewed: 3579 times.	North Dakota Montana Border Country. "More furnace heat, into some badlands, and we cross the border into Montana. A sign by the road announces it. .. Sylvia waves her arms up and down and I beep the horn in response, but when I look at the sign my feelings are not jubilant at all. For me its information causes a sudden inward tension that can’t exist for them. They’ve no way of knowing we’re now in the country where he lived. .. All this talk so far about classic and romantic understanding must seem a strangely oblique way of describing him, but to get at Phædrus, this oblique route is the only one to take.“ 4Mi W of Marmarth, ND. has more Scenery and Montana Cows. Some “Badlands” are seen in distance. ************************************ (Photo = 104-0463c ...... ZMM Page = 071 ...... WayPt = 082`\|w\|' 3070ft) Viewed: 3425 times.	Cows and In the Distance: Oil Tanks. "I told Chris the other night that Phædrus spent his entire life pursuing a ghost. That was true. The ghost he pursued was the ghost that underlies all of technology, all of modern science, all of Western thought. It was the ghost of rationality itself. [In other words, this ghost is the basis of our civilization’s primary received knowledge.] I told Chris that he found the ghost and that when he found it he thrashed it good. I think in a figurative sense that is true. The things I hope to bring to light as we go along are some of the things he uncovered. Now the times are such that others may at last find them of value. No one then would see the ghost that Phædrus pursued, but I think now that more and more people see it, or get glimpses of it in bad moments, … " Baker, MT. is seen in distance. ************************************ (Photo = 104-0464c ...... ZMM Page = 071 ...... WayPt = 083`\|f\|' 3070ft) Viewed: 3211 times.
Giant “S” Curve Carries Rt12 Over RR Tracks. " … a ghost [of received knowledge] which calls itself rationality but whose appearance is that of incoherence and meaninglessness, which causes the most normal of everyday acts to seem slightly mad because of their irrelevance to anything else. This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says.“ Baker, MT. in distance. Railroad Train plus Light of Diesel Locomotive is seen. Our highway here makes great “S” curve away from its former roadbed, as it over-passes grass covered railway discernable at right. ************************************ (Photo = 104-0465c ...... ZMM Page = 071 ...... WayPt = 084`\|f\|'3074 ft) Viewed: 3122 times.	Lone Café-Bar and Old Style Wooden Frame Elevator. "At Baker, where we stop, the thermometers are reading 108 degrees in the shade. When I take my gloves off, the metal of the gas tank is so hot I can’t touch it. The engine is making ominous knick-knicking sounds from overheating. Very bad. The rear tire has worn badly too, and I feel with my hand that it’s almost as hot as the gas tank. .. "We’re going to have to slow down," I say … "What?" .. "I don’t think we should go over fifty," I say. .. John looks at Sylvia and she looks at him. Something has already been said between them about my slowness. They both look as if they’ve about had it. .. "We just want to get there fast," John says, and they both walk toward a restaurant.“ Baker, MT., East side of street where, at a glance, this seemed to be the town's only Café. But on second close look, I see it has the words Bar on upper corner. Next photo shows the opposite, (West) side of the street. When the Sutherlands and the Narrator came this way they were grueled by the heat. I was similarly oppressed but by the cold stormy weather. ************************************ (Photo = 104-0467c ...... ZMM Page = 072 ...... WayPt = 086`\|u\|' 3070ft) Viewed: 3182 times.	Real Western Towns Have Six Bars in a Row. "They may want to go ahead fast and wait for me in some town up ahead. I’d suggest it myself except that if they go much faster they won’t be waiting for me in some town. It’ll be by the side of the road. .. "I don’t know how the people here stand this," Sylvia says. .. “Well, it’s hard country," I say with a little irritation. "They know it’s hard before they come here and are ready for it." .. I add, "If one person complains he just makes it that much harder for the others. They’ve got stamina. They know how to keep on going.“ Baker, MT. business district where are found 6 bars, all in a row, two of which are between restaurants. Another Old Style Wooden Frame Elevator Complex finishes the business district. Evidently a new cold front is coming in causing the ever darker clouds to release copious rain. Life forms in this area, including people are, no doubt, very grateful! This is an enormous contrast with what the ZMM Narrator describes. The “traveler” participates in both extremes with “Mind Control”. ************************************ (Photo = 104-0466rc ...... ZMM Page = 072 ...... WayPt = 085`\|w\|' 3070ft) Viewed: 3269 times.

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. ************************************ (Photo = 104-0426 ...... ZMM Page = 059 ...... WayPt = 071`\|f\|' 2577ft) Viewed: 3602 times.	Wednesday, July 10, 2024: … Black Angus Cattle Pay Us No Mind, As We Drive On By! NOTE: About two minutes after seeing the above Angus Cattle, the SECOND NEXT Photo was taken, And you can find where this was located, by studying the Satellite View, Blue Link, below the SECOND NEXT Photo. Along US-12, About 1 Mile East Of Cross Road Rt-9, Half Way From Lemon, SD to Hettinger, ND. File = DSC 0161 PhotoStHGUpldAug29.2025#3LemonSDHettingerND BlackAngusCattle Resoz1764 Viewed: 29 times.	Wednesday, July 10, 2024: … About 1 Minute After Seeing The Black Angus Cattle Of A Previous Photo, We Saw These Beautiful Fields Of Yellow Blooming Flax. …In The Distance, Notice The 4 Shiny Metal Grain Stores. The NEXT Photo Shows A Closer View. NOTE: Two minutes after seeing the above Angus, the NEXT Photo was taken, And you can find where this was, by studying the Satellite View, Blue Link, below this NEXT Photo. Along US-12, About Half Mile East Of Cross Road Rt-9, Half Way From Lemon, SD to Hettinger, ND. File = DSC_0164 Resize1504x1000 ~154KB jpg Viewed: 56 times.
Wednesday, July 10, 2024: … On A Very Beautiful Sunny Day, 4 Grain Stores Along The ZMM Route, On The Way To Miles City, MT. …In The Distance, The Yellow Is A Field Of Flax. This Is Seen Along The Highway Here, On Both Sides. …Google finds this => "Dakota yellow Fields Flax", likely refers to the Gold ND flax variety, released by North Dakota State University (NDSU). It's a high-yielding, yellow-seeded flax variety known for its excellent yield, good oil content, and resistance to flax rust and wilt. Along US-12, 1/5 Mile West Of Cross Road Rt-9, Half Way From Lemon, SD to Hettinger, ND. To See Where The /\ABOVE/\ Photo was taken. Click Here. And AFTER This Satellite View Comes Up, See 4 Round Grain Stores, At Center Screen. NOTE: This is the last June 2024 Photo along ZMM Route, for ZMM Part One. After you finish viewing the remainder of this Photo Album, you will see instructions for advancing to => ZMM Part Two, Photo Album. File = DSC 0173 4ShinyMetalGrainStors 2.25MB Resize1504x1000 154KB Viewed: 57 times.	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! ********************** 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). ************************* (Photo = 104-0436sr ...... ZMM Page = 063 ...... WayPt = 075`\|x\|' 2820ft) Viewed: 3285 times.	Buildings In Distance Announce the Next Town. "Heat is everywhere now. I can’t ignore it anymore. The air is like a furnace blast so hot that my eyes under the goggles feel cool compared to the rest of my face. My hands are cool but the gloves have big black spots from perspiration on the back surrounded by white streaks of dried salt. .. On the road ahead a crow tugs on some carrion and flies up slowly as we approach. It looks like a lizard on the road, dry and stuck to the tar. .. On the horizon appears an image of buildings, shimmering slightly. I look down at the map and it must be Bowman. I think about ice water and air conditioning.“ Bowman, ND. As my photos show, all of Rt12 from Mobridge, SD. to Miles City, MT, is now excellent highway. See caption three photos previous for more about the factual 9 July 1968 “record heat wave” the Narrator describes in the next 30 pages of ZMM. ************************************ (Photo = 104-0441 ...... ZMM Page = 067 ...... WayPt = 076`\|f\|' 2965ft) Viewed: 2992 times.
Business District and Big J Restaurant "On the street and sidewalks of Bowman we see almost no one, even though plenty of parked cars show they’re here. All inside. We swing the machines into an angled parking place with a tight turn that points them outward, for when we’re ready to go.“ Bowman, ND. Where people at the Big J Restaurant were very friendly and helpful with my ZMM Route research. If you visit this (and any) restaurant, mid-morning on, be sure to strike up a conversation with the retirees, who will welcome the chance to tell you local history and sights. Also be sure to tell any restaurant/hotel/store staff that you are following the ZMM route. Once the motels, restaurants, gas stations, stores along the ZMM Route see there is a steady flow of ZMM enthusiastic customers, they will start to assemble ZMM related local information. This may help in historical preservation and keep these (and other historic ZMM related buildings along the ZMM Route) for future generations! ************************************ (Photo = 104-0443c ...... ZMM Page = 067 ...... WayPt = 077`\|u\|' 2960ft) Viewed: 3369 times.	A Lone Elderly Man with Broad-Brimmed Hat. "A lone, elderly person wearing a broad-brimmed hat watches us put the cycles on their stands and remove helmets and goggles. .. "Hot enough for you?" he asks. His expression is blank. .. John shakes his head and says, "Gawd!" .. The expression, shaded by the hat, becomes almost a smile. .. "What is the temperature?" John asks… "Hundred and two," he says, "last I saw. Should go to hundred and four.".. He asks us how far we have come and we tell him and he nods with a kind of approval. "That’s a long way," he says. Then he asks about the machines. .. The beer and air conditioning are calling, but we don’t break away. We just stand there in the hundred-and-two sun talking to this person. He is a stockman, retired, says this is pretty much ranch country around here … “ Big J Restaurant, Bowman, ND. When I walk up to the Big J Restaurant, camera in hand, I encounter this Lone Elderly Man. This is by pure coincidence! This is almost too good to believe. Since he exactly fits the above passage I ask him to pause for this photo. ************************************ (Photo = 104-0444c ...... ZMM Page = 067 ...... WayPt = 077`\|u\|' 2960ft) Viewed: 3538 times.	Good Food! Good Service! Cautious, But Ultimately Friendly, People. "… and he used to own a cycle years ago. It pleases me that he should want to talk about his Henderson [1925 era motorcycle] in this hundred-and-two sun. We talk about it for a while, with growing impatience from John and Sylvia and Chris, and when we finally say good-bye he says he is glad to have met us and his expression is still blank but we sense that he really meant it. He walks away with a kind of slow dignity in the hundred-and-two sun. … John and Sylvia look really out of it. … The waitress comes for the order and that snaps them out of it a little, … An image of the elderly man outside in the wide-brimmed hat comes back to me. "Think what it was like around here before air conditioning," I say.“ Big J Restaurant, Bowman, ND. Here is where I explain my ZMM research and ask about the history of the Big J Restaurant. In response to my queries, and un-be-knownst to me, local resident Les Snavely was summoned. Mr Snavely (in photo /\ above /\), who is himself a ZMM enthusiast, said the “lone elderly person” in ZMM was likely Bowman resident, Mr. Claude White, who DID own a Henderson! ....Mr. Snavely should know! He is an Antique Motorcycle Enthusiast. He is known all over USA for his expert knowledge (and extensive collection) of old cycles. …DATE-LINE: February 25, 2021. by Henry Gurr. This Photo Caption for ~~17 years said Be sure to ask for Mr Snavely at The Big J !! ….However, this can no longer be. Big J Restaurant is under new management and has moved to another location. …And sadly we must say => Mr Les R Snavely passed away Oct 15, 2020: His Obituary gives a full life sketch and a nice photo of him. ….To See A Panorama For ~10 miles West of Bowman, ND. … After this Gallery Albums Page Comes Up, Click On The Small Photo, and AFTER this Small Photos Page Comes Up => Click on the Sixth narrow strip photo. : & …. (Alternate: If you have already viewed a panorama in a second (new) browser window, simply switch to it and choose the first Gallery Picture) ************************************ (Photo = 104-0446c ...... ZMM Page = 067 ...... WayPt = 077`\|u\|' 2960ft) Viewed: 3951 times.
Layers of Light Grey Volcanic Dust In ….The Bad Lands Southeastern North Dakota. …."Miles later and the heat is just ferocious. Sunglasses and goggles are not enough for this glare. You need a welder’s mask. .. The High Plains break up into washed-out and gullied hills. It is all bright whitish tan. Not a blade of grass anywhere. Just scattered weed stalks and rocks and sand. The black of the highway is a relief to look at so I stare down at it and study how the blur whizzes by underfoot. Beside it I see the left exhaust pipe has picked up a bluer color than it has ever had before. I spit on my glove tips, touch it and can see the sizzle. Not good. .. It’s important now to just live with this and not fight it mentally—mind control.“ Photos for Ten miles East of Marmarth, ND. Click Here For More Views Of Badlands And How To Google For Links To Maps And Aerial Views Over This Area. ‘THEN AFTER this Gallery Albums Page Comes Up, Scroll Down To & Read Description Of => AFTER this Photo Comes Up, you will have to use the “Click&Drag” sliders at Bottom & Right to see the parts of photo off screen. : ************************* (Photo = Summer2006 0342 ...... ZMM Page = 068 ...... WayPt = 077i) Viewed: 2807 times.	The Badlands of Southwestern North Dakota Seem To Be Caused By a Considerable Layer of Volcanic Ash. "What has become an urgent necessity is a way of looking at the world that does violence to neither of these two kinds of understanding [Classical & Romantic] and unites them into one. Such an understanding will not reject sand-sorting or contemplation of unsorted sand for its own sake. Such an understanding will instead seek to direct attention to the endless landscape from which the sand is taken. … To understand what he [Phædrus] was trying to do it’s necessary to see that part of the landscape, inseparable from it, which must be understood, is a figure in the middle of it, sorting sand into piles. To see the landscape without seeing this figure is not to see the landscape at all. To reject that part of the Buddha that attends to the analysis of motorcycles is to miss the Buddha entirely.“ Ten miles East of Marmarth, ND. The Narrator discusses the dry lifeless processes of science and philosophical analysis. ************************************ (Photo = ...... Summer2006 0349 ...... ZMM Page = 070 WayPt = 077m) Viewed: 2959 times.	The Narrator Continues His Discussion of the Dry Lifeless Processes Of Science And Philosophical Analysis. "There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to ask that question is to look in the right direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. About the Buddha that exists independently of any analytic thought much has been said...some would say too much, and would question any attempt to add to it. But about the Buddha that exists within analytic thought, and gives that analytic thought its direction, virtually nothing has been said, and there are historic reasons for this. But history keeps happening, and it seems no harm and maybe some positive good to add to our historical heritage with some talk in this area of discourse.“ Ten miles East of, Marmarth, ND. ************************************ (Photo = Summer2006 0351 ...... ZMM Page = 070 ...... WayPt = 077n) Viewed: 3028 times.
Death-Birth Continuity. …" [By the time Mark Twain] had mastered the analytic knowledge needed to pilot the Mississippi River, he discovered the river had lost its beauty. Something is always killed. But what is less noticed in the arts...something is always created too. And instead of just dwelling on what is killed it’s important also to see what’s created and to see the process as a kind of death-birth continuity that is neither good nor bad, but just is. .. We pass through a town called Marmarth but John doesn’t stop even for a rest and so we go on.“ Bad Lands around Marmarth, ND. In the above passage, the narrator dwells on death and killing, which (Metaphoric Bridge Connection), “fits” this surrounding very real harsh terrain. …And here, ALSO notice how the town atmosphere, and town’s evident abandonment (MBC), fits the Narrators description of the surrounding harsh terrain and the “death-birth continuity” of above passage. … Even the name Marmarth poetically sounds (Metaphoric Bridge Connection), malicious, maladaptive, plus rhymes with harmful. …Moreover, You Should Study How The Lived Road Experience Of The Narrator, Chris And The Sutherlands, reflects and poetically amplifies the painful telling of this terrible wrenching desolate portion of Phaedrus’ life, as follows => …At the end of these 7 pages, in this "heat is so ferocious. …. old, bad highway.“ we are told => " And a slip of paper from the probate court telling me that some person was committed as insane. Did they mean me? “ …The ZMM passage above is part of ~7 pages, where there are multiple Metaphoric Bridge Connections (MBC)s, that 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. ************************ (Photo = 104-0458c ...... ZMM Page = 071 After ...... WayPt = 079`\|w\|' ft) Viewed: 3579 times.	North Dakota Montana Border Country. "More furnace heat, into some badlands, and we cross the border into Montana. A sign by the road announces it. .. Sylvia waves her arms up and down and I beep the horn in response, but when I look at the sign my feelings are not jubilant at all. For me its information causes a sudden inward tension that can’t exist for them. They’ve no way of knowing we’re now in the country where he lived. .. All this talk so far about classic and romantic understanding must seem a strangely oblique way of describing him, but to get at Phædrus, this oblique route is the only one to take.“ 4Mi W of Marmarth, ND. has more Scenery and Montana Cows. Some “Badlands” are seen in distance. ************************************ (Photo = 104-0463c ...... ZMM Page = 071 ...... WayPt = 082`\|w\|' 3070ft) Viewed: 3425 times.	Cows and In the Distance: Oil Tanks. "I told Chris the other night that Phædrus spent his entire life pursuing a ghost. That was true. The ghost he pursued was the ghost that underlies all of technology, all of modern science, all of Western thought. It was the ghost of rationality itself. [In other words, this ghost is the basis of our civilization’s primary received knowledge.] I told Chris that he found the ghost and that when he found it he thrashed it good. I think in a figurative sense that is true. The things I hope to bring to light as we go along are some of the things he uncovered. Now the times are such that others may at last find them of value. No one then would see the ghost that Phædrus pursued, but I think now that more and more people see it, or get glimpses of it in bad moments, … " Baker, MT. is seen in distance. ************************************ (Photo = 104-0464c ...... ZMM Page = 071 ...... WayPt = 083`\|f\|' 3070ft) Viewed: 3211 times.
Giant “S” Curve Carries Rt12 Over RR Tracks. " … a ghost [of received knowledge] which calls itself rationality but whose appearance is that of incoherence and meaninglessness, which causes the most normal of everyday acts to seem slightly mad because of their irrelevance to anything else. This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says.“ Baker, MT. in distance. Railroad Train plus Light of Diesel Locomotive is seen. Our highway here makes great “S” curve away from its former roadbed, as it over-passes grass covered railway discernable at right. ************************************ (Photo = 104-0465c ...... ZMM Page = 071 ...... WayPt = 084`\|f\|'3074 ft) Viewed: 3122 times.	Lone Café-Bar and Old Style Wooden Frame Elevator. "At Baker, where we stop, the thermometers are reading 108 degrees in the shade. When I take my gloves off, the metal of the gas tank is so hot I can’t touch it. The engine is making ominous knick-knicking sounds from overheating. Very bad. The rear tire has worn badly too, and I feel with my hand that it’s almost as hot as the gas tank. .. "We’re going to have to slow down," I say … "What?" .. "I don’t think we should go over fifty," I say. .. John looks at Sylvia and she looks at him. Something has already been said between them about my slowness. They both look as if they’ve about had it. .. "We just want to get there fast," John says, and they both walk toward a restaurant.“ Baker, MT., East side of street where, at a glance, this seemed to be the town's only Café. But on second close look, I see it has the words Bar on upper corner. Next photo shows the opposite, (West) side of the street. When the Sutherlands and the Narrator came this way they were grueled by the heat. I was similarly oppressed but by the cold stormy weather. ************************************ (Photo = 104-0467c ...... ZMM Page = 072 ...... WayPt = 086`\|u\|' 3070ft) Viewed: 3182 times.	Real Western Towns Have Six Bars in a Row. "They may want to go ahead fast and wait for me in some town up ahead. I’d suggest it myself except that if they go much faster they won’t be waiting for me in some town. It’ll be by the side of the road. .. "I don’t know how the people here stand this," Sylvia says. .. “Well, it’s hard country," I say with a little irritation. "They know it’s hard before they come here and are ready for it." .. I add, "If one person complains he just makes it that much harder for the others. They’ve got stamina. They know how to keep on going.“ Baker, MT. business district where are found 6 bars, all in a row, two of which are between restaurants. Another Old Style Wooden Frame Elevator Complex finishes the business district. Evidently a new cold front is coming in causing the ever darker clouds to release copious rain. Life forms in this area, including people are, no doubt, very grateful! This is an enormous contrast with what the ZMM Narrator describes. The “traveler” participates in both extremes with “Mind Control”. ************************************ (Photo = 104-0466rc ...... ZMM Page = 072 ...... WayPt = 085`\|w\|' 3070ft) Viewed: 3269 times.