Continuing Master Motif =>
….LISTENING TO THE WIND (4 of 5)

… “.I think for a while, then say, "When I was last here, did I talk much about the Church of Reason?" ..
… "Yes, you talked a lot about that. …. The rhetoricians of ancient Greece were the first teachers in the history of the Western world. Plato vilified them in all his works to grind an axe of his own and since what we know about them is almost entirely from Plato they’re unique in that they’ve stood condemned throughout history without ever having their side of the story told. The Church of Reason that I talked about was founded on their graves. It’s supported today by their graves. And when you dig deep into its foundations you come across ghosts."
….I look at my watch. It’s after two. "It’s a long story," I say. "“
…. “ ‘You should write all this down,’ Gennie says. .. I nod in agreement. "I’m thinking about a series of lecture-essays...a sort of Chautauqua. I’ve been trying to work them out in my mind as we rode out here—which is probably why I sound so primed on all this stuff. It’s all so huge and difficult. Like trying to travel through these mountains on foot. ”.
... “The trouble is that essays always have to sound like God talking for eternity, and that isn’t the way it ever is. People should see that it’s never anything other than just one person talking from one place in time and space and circumstance. It’s never been anything else, ever, but you can’t get that across in an essay." .
... "You should do it anyway," Gennie says. "Without trying to get it perfect." .. "I suppose," I say. “
….“ DeWeese asks, "Does this tie in with what you were doing on ‘Quality’?"
.... "It’s the direct result of it," I say.
.. .. I remember something and look at DeWeese. "Didn’t you advise me to drop it?"
.... "I said no one had ever succeeded in doing what you were trying to do."
.. .. "Do you think it’s possible?"
.... "I don’t know. Who knows?" His expression is really concerned. "A lot of people are listening better these days. Particularly the kids. They’re really listening—and not just at you...to you—to you. It makes all the difference.
….The wind coming down from the snowfields up above sounds for a long time throughout the house. It grows loud and high as if in hope of sweeping the whole house, all of us, away into nothing, leaving the canyon as it once was, but the house stands and the wind dies away again, defeated. Then it comes back, feinting a light blow from the far side, then suddenly a heavy gust from our side.
.... "I keep listening to the wind," I say. I add, "I think when the Sutherlands have left, Chris and I should do some climbing up to where that wind starts. I think it’s time he got a better look at that land.“ (Continued next.)

DeWeese Home, Gallatin Gateway, MT.

GIVING ATTENTION TO “MASTER MOTIFs IN ZMM =>
….….When You Read The ABOVE, Did You Come Alert, With =>FOUR TIMES Word => “wind"
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In the ABOVE passage => “essays always have to sound like God talking for eternity .... “
….The Narrator recognizes the religious tendency for human authored text to be adopted as the voice of God, or to over idealize the author.
…. In above ZMM Passage, what the ZMM Narrator is telling us an important message =>
….The Tendency To Over “Idolize” A Human Author Is Very True For All Of Us.
….And in fact despite my knowing the Narrator’s above warnings, I (Henry Gurr) for many-a-year, managed to forget that Robert Pirsig was just another human (like all the rest of us), and did exactly over “idolize”.

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(Photo = 108-0917 ...... ZMM Page = 152-153 ...... WayPt = 198s' 5720ft. Photo at WayPt = 229`|w|' 4601ft)