DeWeese Home With Enormous Iron Sculpture On Left Side of House.
…,At Right Of House, The Mountainside You See, Is On The SE Side of Cottonwood Creek Canyon,
……And To Left Of House, Is Partial View Of Upstream Cottonwood Creek Canyon.

“ …. with an enormous abstract iron sculpture attached to one side and beneath it sitting in a chair tipped back against the house surrounded by company is the living image of DeWeese himself with a can of beer in his hand, which waves to us. Right out of the old photographs.“

DeWeese Home, Gallatin Gateway, MT. Concerning the “ enormous abstract iron sculpture“ (In The Above ZMM Passage): On April 27, 2021: Tina DeWeese says => “This was made by Bill Sage, a student of Dad’s from the 50’s. This sculpture is still there, as you see it in this above picture, 53 years later!
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DATE-LINE: April 27, 2021 by Henry Gurr.
ZMM Research Question Based On The Above Passage: Does Anybody Know Of Any More Of These Old DeWeese Family Photos?
….In order for Author Pirsig to know, as he arrives, “ Right out of the old photographs.“, he would have to remember photos, dating back to his time at Montana State College (1959- 1961), OR sent to him by DeWeese Family.
Many Such Photos Probably Still Exist In =>
..A) Author Robert Pirsig & Wife Wendy’s Family Scrapbooks, one of which was mentioned by Mr. Pirsig in regard to a photo he took of Bob & Gennie holding A Yellow Flower.
..B) Also. Mrs. Wendy Pirsig has told me there is a collection of her husband Robert’s Stereo 3D Photos. These surely will have more than the 12 known color photos by Mr. Pirsig, and posted this ZMMQ WebSite. (See TOP small photo in Menu at left.). ….….This leads me to hypothesize that author Pirsig had taken many more photos than the twelve currently available. I also hypothesize that these additional photos were the foundation for much of Mr. Pirsig's vivid (and factual) landscape descriptions in ZMM.
..C) Continued from B) above => In Mr. Robert Pirsig’s October 5, 2001 letter to me, he said, “slides were reproductions made in 1975 for a lecture about the 1968 trip and I still have the original stereopticon slides from which they were made. I have made a note to find a commercial reproduction service that can digitize from 35 mm slides.”
Again =>These stereopticon slides surely would have more than the 12 known photos.
..C) The DeWeese Family Scrapbooks & Files, most of which have been transferred to Montana State University Archives.
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DATE-LINE CONTINUED: April 27, 2021 by Henry Gurr.
NEW, BUT RELATED TOPIC:=> Mr. Pirsig's Twelve Known 1968 Color Photos Of His Original "ZMM Trip" => Are “Written Into ZMM” !
….In the ZMM Narrative, it is readily apparent that, some of Mr. Pirsig's factual ZMM descriptions (look like they, as he says, came) “Right out of the old photographs.“. Is this hinting that he, on purpose, also wrote photos into his ZMM book?. For answer, consider the following =>
EXAMPLES OF PHOTOS “WRITTEN INTO ZMM, Are To Be Found, As You Will Read, In Forthcoming Series Of Photo Captions, As Next =>
..FIFTH NEXT CAPTION: “ open porch deck he and his guests are on is unfinished and unweathered.” … ... NOTE: The un-painted wood railing is behind Gennie.
..SIXTH NEXT CAPTION: “among trees and deep grass where a horse, partially hidden by the trees, grazes without looking up.
..EIGHTH NEX CAPTIONT … NOTE: This Happens To Be On Same Photo. “The stream itself appears another fifty feet down and away from the house,”. … NOTE: Cottonwood Creek (“the stream”), is in a low area, just before the distant pine trees.
.. TENTH NEXT CAPTION: “ We step up onto the deck. Between the floorboards it has spaces, like a grate. I can see the ground through them.“ … NOTE: The “floorboards …like a grate” are at Gennie’s feet.
..THIRTEENTH NEXT CAPTION "Some neighbors just came over with a mess of trout for dinner.” ….. “I can smell the aroma from the frying trout in the kitchen.”


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