Beautiful Scenery, But Tough For The Plant Life Without Irrigation.

….[ “ This morning sunlight is the same as yesterday’s except warmer and softer now that we’re at a lower altitude again.“
…. “ There is nothing unusual. It’s just this archeological feeling that the calmness of the surroundings conceals things. A haunted place. .. I really don’t want to go there. I’d just as soon turn around and go back. .. Just tension, I guess. “ ]
…. “ It fits one of the fragments of this memory, in which many mornings the tension was so intense he would throw up everything before he got to his first classroom. He loathed appearing before classrooms of students and talking. It was a complete violation of his whole lone, isolated way of life, and what he experienced was intense stage fright, except that it never showed on him as stage fright, but rather as a terrific intensity about everything he did. Students had told his wife it was just like electricity in the air. The moment he entered the classroom all eyes turned on him and followed him as he walked to the front of the room. All conversation died to a hush and remained at a hush even though it was several minutes, often, before the class started. Throughout the hour the eyes never strayed from him.
… He became much talked about, a controversial figure. The majority of students avoided his sections like the Black Death. They had heard too many stories.“

Traveling On Montana Route 540, 8.5 Miles Downriver From Miner, MT.
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In above ZMM Passage
…1) You will see one of many examples of how the Narrator actively looking at his surrounding landscape => “ the calmness of the surroundings conceals things. A haunted place I guess. “ , is then prompted into his following story! This could be Master Motif?
…2) The Narrator, 3rd paragraph uses the word “fit": This word is used in ZMM (with variations) approximately 32 times.

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