This Is A SECOND 1978 Photo Of A Third Floor Classroom In MSU’s Montana Hall
….Showing Professor Gary Wegner, As The Narrator Says => Looking Over A Radiator, Out The Windows And See To The South The Valley & Distant Mountains..
….And Where Shirley Luhrsen Said Robert Pirsig Once Taught English 1959-1961.
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….[ “ The room inside is waiting, exactly as remembered, As If HE Were Here now. HE is here now. HE’s aware of everything I see.
….Everything jumps forth and vibrates with recall.
.... The long dark-green chalkboards on either side are flaked and in need of repair, just as they were. The chalk, never any chalk except little stubs in the trough, is still here. Beyond the blackboard are the windows and through them are the mountains he watched, meditatively, on days when the students were writing. He would sit by the radiator with a stub of chalk in one hand and stare out the window at the mountains, interrupted, occasionally, by a student who asked, "Do we have to do -- ? ..“ ]
….“ And he would turn and answer whatever thing it was and there was a oneness he had never known before. This was a place where he was received—as himself. Not as what he could be or should be but as himself. A place all receptive—listening. He gave everything to it. This wasn’t one room, this was a thousand rooms, changing each day with the storms and snows and patterns of clouds on the mountains, with each class, and even with each student. No two hours were ever alike, and it was always a mystery to him what the next one would bring . …..“
Third Floor, Montana Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
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In the /\ Above /\ Photo at far right, you see one of the Narrator’s “long dark-green chalkboards on either side … “
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….The /\ Above /\ Photo Was Taken Early August 1978, By The Then Professor Of English Gary Wegner. ….Please see Previous Photo for Information & Links Re Prof Wegner’s 7 Photos Of Montana Hall.
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….The NEXT Photo shows the mountains he watched, meditatively, on days when the students were writing.““
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(Photo = Montana Hall Clsrm}SeatsRadiatorGaryWegnerLkOutWin~19790808 = p073 ...... ZMM Page = 157 ...... WayPt = 203w 4915ft)