Part II: The Illustrated "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Chapters 8 thru 15.  

Continuing Master Motif =>
….LISTENING TO THE WIND (3 of 5).


The ZMM Narrator, Gennie & Robert DeWeese, Become Involved In Serious Discussion =>
…. "Analytic reason, dialectic reason. Reason which at the University is sometimes considered to be the whole of understanding. You’ve never had to understand it really. It’s always been completely bankrupt with regard to abstract art. Nonrepresentative art is one of the root experiences I’m talking about. Some people still condemn it because it doesn’t make ‘sense.’ But what’s really wrong is not the art but the ‘sense,’ the classical reason, which can’t grasp it. People keep looking for branch extensions of reason that will cover art’s more recent occurrences, but the answers aren’t in the branches, they’re at the roots."
….“A rush of wind comes furiously now, down from the mountaintop. "The ancient Greeks," I say, "who were the inventors of classical reason, knew better than to use it [classical reason] exclusively to foretell the future. …They listened to the wind and predicted the future from that…. That sounds insane now. But why should the inventors of reason sound insane?" .
….DeWeese squints. "How could they tell the future from the wind?"
…. "I don’t know, maybe the same way a painter can tell the future of his painting by staring at the canvas. Our whole system of knowledge stems from their results. We’ve yet to understand the methods that produced these results."
(Continued next.)

DeWeese Home, Gallatin Gateway, MT..
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GIVING ATTENTION TO “MASTER MOTIFs IN ZMM =>
….When You Read The ABOVE, Did You Come Alert, With =>THREE TIMES Word => “wind"
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…. The Guidebook To ZMM Mentions => “WIND” as a “Master Motif” And Lists (In ZMM New Age Edition), Where To Find Them, AS FOLLOWS, 1) thru 4) =>

….The Guidebook Gives Us Examples Below 1) & 2). …. Plus Examples 3) & 4) Added by Yours Truly.

…1) ZMM Page 32 “Except for the wind through the screens of the motel window it is quiet. The thought of all that wind sweeping toward us across the open fields of the prairie is a tranquil one and I feel lulled by it.”
…2) ZMM Page 152, GIVEN ABOVE “..answers aren’t in the branches, they’re at the roots." … A rush of wind comes furiously now, down from the mountaintop. "The ancient Greeks," I say, "who were the inventors of classical reason, knew better than to use it exclusively to foretell the future. They listened to the wind and predicted the future from that. "”
..3) ZMM Page 109 .... A sudden cross-gust of cold air comes heavy with the smell of pines, and soon another and another, and as we approach Red Lodge I’m shivering. “ ].
”We walk past ski shops …”

..4) ZMM Page 153, A Much More Complex Example=> Is Given in The Narrator’s Statements To Gennie & Bob DeWeese => This is in The ZMM Passages above, combined with Two Previous Photos.

.NOTE => .We thus see that these “WIND” passages are introduced, without any set pattern.

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(Photo = 108-0916 ...... ZMM Page = 152 ...... WayPt = 198s' 5720ft. Photo at WayPt = 229`|w|' 4601ft)


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