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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(1 OF 4): “WHO ARE THE DEWEESES?”=>
….In The Very Beginning Of ZMM’s Chapter 12, At Cooke City, MT =>
….Getting Close To Yellowstone National Park, John & Sylvia Sutherland Have Just Questioned
….~“Who Are The DeWeeses?” AND The Narrator Replies =>

.. It’s about the people we’ll be staying with tomorrow, the DeWeeses. .. I’m not sure what the question was but add, "He’s a painter. He teaches fine arts at the college there [Bozeman MT], an abstract impressionist." .
... They ask how I came to know him and I have to answer that I don’t remember which is a little evasive. I don’t remember anything about him except fragments. He and his wife were evidently friends of Phædrus’ friends, and he came to know them that way. .. They wonder what an engineering writer like myself would have in common with an abstract painter and I have to say again that I don’t know. I mentally file through the fragments for an answer but none comes.
.... Their personalities were certainly different. Whereas photographs of Phædrus’ face during this period show alienation and aggression—a member of his department had half jokingly called it a "subversive" look—some photographs of DeWeese from the same period show a face that is quite passive, almost serene, except for a mild questioning expression.”
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April 27, 2021” Tina DeWeese says => “I know this is Pirsig’s commentary and you won’t want to change that as he wrote it. But for future reference, Bob DeWeese was an abstract expressionist. (not impressionist).
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A VERY GOOD ARTICLE SUMMARIZING THEIR LIVES =>
….Montana’s Legendary Art Pioneers: Bob And Gennie DeWeese. By Gail Schontzler, Bozeman Chronicle Staff Writer Dec 25, 2011
…. Thanks to Bozeman Chronicle, for Photo & Article: Click Here.
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DATE-LINE: May 4, 2021. by Henry Gurr.
….April 27, 2021: Tina DeWeese says => “Here’s the Hotlink to our Website, which shows [same /\ Above /\ Photo view of Bob and Gennie, but shows considerably] more of their Art Studio.”
AFTER THE ABOVE BLUE LINK COMES UP => YOU SHOULD TAKE TIME TO STUDY DETAILS IN THE LARGER BETTER VERSION OF THE /\ ABOVE /\ SMALLER PHOTO =>
…. Which Shows Bob & Gennie In Their Art Studio Work Room, At The Lowest Level Of Their Cottonwood Canyon Home.
….We See In This Work Room, The State Of Creative Chaos, Just As It Was Back In ~1980.
=> The Blue Link ABOVE has a somewhat larger photographic scene: Right Click On This Link, Select New Tab and AFTER photo comes up, Please Notice =>
..A) The corner of the room, seen left of center, is toward ~East. This is because the home is oriented parallel to Cottonwood Canyon & Road, which trend Southeast,
..B) Looking out the window at left, you can see the horse pasture is covered with snow. It’s Winter Time with Bob & Gennie having extra clothing.
..C) And upper left in the window view, you see the Pine Tree Covered slope. This is the Northeast Mountain Edge Of Cottonwood Canyon. To the right of this slope is, Upstream, Cottonwood Canyon, trending Southeast.
..D) With magnifying glass, at the bottom of photo, you can read the well-organized hand writing on Strip Of White Paper. You can make out that some of the “data” is practically in columns. We will have to ask the DeWeese siblings whether this writing was Gennie’s or Bob’s?

…. Concerning the /\ Above /\ Photo => Tina DeWeese Sends ADDED INFORMATION About Her Mom & Dad’s “Art Studio Work Room”
….[Tina continues her => ] “Thinking … might want to add a comment about the congestion of varied and various art objects in the studio. There was period when my dad had a hand scrawled sign above his studio door => ACCUMULATED ACCUMULATIONS.”
….”He wrote a poem about The Studio, you can see here, together with poems written by their granddaughter, Mira Shimabukuro, about each of them: These are wonderful character studies of these enigmatic folks, her grandparents. ”
….”The image on this page [Blue Link Above] is from a painting he made of an earlier studio on Main Street Bozeman, before they moved to Cottonwood in 1965. It was once upon a time the old Moose Lodge, the entire floor of the building and situated above the VFW. This was the studio where the famous “studio parties” happened, the congregation of artists and intellectual “radicals” from MSU, one among whom was Bob Pirsig on occasion. This was also the studio in which they, among MSU friends, directed and performed a tremendous production of Kurt Weil’s Three Penny Opera. (Remind me to share pics with you another time.)”
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…. For More About Bozeman “Parties” => Right Click Here, and Open In A New Tab. And AFTER Page Comes Up => Scroll down to => “Yearly 4 of July Art Community Get-Togethers.”

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(2 OF 4): “WHO ARE THE DEWEESES?”=>
….Robert DeWeese (1920 – 1990): A Portrait by Sil Strung.
.... Youngest Daughter Tina DeWeese says this was “ a portrait by our friend and neighbor Sil Strung. [This portrait] has been used on many occasions, one of which was for his memorial Celebration of Life in 1990."
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At Link Below => You May Read About The Life AND Art of Robert DeWeese
….In An Exhibit Retrospective Document by The Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT.
….”The Holter Museum of Art is pleased and honored to present Robert DeWeese: A Look Ahead. This examination of Robert DeWeese, his art and his legacy, came about through the efforts and attention of many. Several years in the making, this exhibition began with the gift of over 1,000 pieces of Robert DeWeese’s art. The Holter Museum is grateful for the generosity of the DeWeese family. …. We appreciate beyond measure their contributions that enabled us to explore—and celebrate—Robert DeWeese’s gifts to Montana’s art and culture.”
…. For Complete Article, With One Photo, Click Here.

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(3 OF 4): “WHO ARE THE DEWEESES?”=>
….Pepper, Painting of Pepper, And Genevieve "Gennie" DeWeese (Née Adams) (10 January 1921 – 26 November 2007),
…. A Modernist Painter And Prominent Member Of The Art Community In Bozeman, Montana.

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April 27, 2021: Tina DeWeese says, ”Gennie’s dog’s name was Pepper. Pepper was a model for many paintings, drawings, and prints through the years that she was a part of the family.”
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….Gennie DeWeese (1921-2007) And Her Husband, Robert "Bob" DeWeese (1920-1990) Were Notable For The Major Role They Played In The Development Of The Montana Contemporary Arts Community.

…A) Click Here To Read This Very Nice Gennie DeWeese Wikipedia Article.

…B) Click Here To Read This Very Nice Robert DeWeese Wikipedia Article.

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An Excellent Biographical Overview Of Life And Art Of Gennie DeWeese,
….This Is Given In A Video Talk By Bob & Gennie’s Youngest, Josh DeWeese.
…,,,, Our Facebook Creator & Editor, David J. Matos , Contributes The Following About The ”Matriarchs Of Modernism”Talk, Which Is Adapted From The Yellowstone Art Museum WebSite =>
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GENNIE DEWEESE.
…. Aug 22 2021: The Yellowstone Art Museum hosted an excellent ”Matriarchs of Modernism” exhibit this summer featuring the art. of Gennie DeWeese among others.
….Ceramics artist Josh DeWeese, the DeWeese’s youngest child, gave a presentation on his mother for the museum's Gallery Conversations series.

Concerning The Above Josh DeWeese Video Talk => We Can't Improve On Tina DeWeese's Description.
…."[This] excellent talk by my brother Josh is a thorough and generous biographical overview of the life and art of our mother. He offers insight into the cultural spirit of the times that influenced Mom's lifetime of dedication and passion as a painter and printmaker. Together with her life partner and father of their five kids, Gennie and Bob became a hub of local, state and national community of artists and like minded liberal thinkers of the times.”
…."Josh's unique perspective as the youngest of five offers crucial and familial insight into the complexity and vitality of their lives. He was deeply influenced by their fundamental premise that ART and LIFE are one and the same, and his life has become testimony to the scribbled note in one of Dad's journals: 'responsibility is the ability to respond'."
…. Life And Art Of Gennie DeWeese: A Video Talk By Josh DeWeese. Click Here.

….HISTORY EXPLANATION => Pirsig fans will remember that the Narrator in book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance visits with the DeWeeses when he comes to Bozeman. This also happened in real life in 1968 when Josh DeWeese was still a small child and as documented in Robert M. Pirsig's own photos from that trip.
Click Here To See Mr Robert Pirsig’s Photo Of => Horse and Josh DeWeese. Professor Robert DeWeese, and Chris, July 1968. AFTER the Five Albums Page Comes Up, Click On Photo Of TOP Album, THEN Scroll Down To The 9th Photo, At Lower Right.

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(4 OF 4): “WHO ARE THE DEWEESES?”=>
….West House Wall Of DeWeese Homestead, With Deck & Above Deck (Partly Hidden) Is Gennie DeWeese’s Large Manipulated Sheet Metal Relief Sculpture, Already Seen In 4th & 5th Previous Photos.
….ALSO Low Along Walkway, On South Wall, Is A SECOND Rectangular Framed Sculpture.
……Plus High On House At Extreme Photo Upper Right Edge Looks Like Yet Another Art Work!

…. “I’m so busy keeping the machine up I can’t take my hands off the grips and I wave a leg back instead. The living image of DeWeese himself grins as we pull up. .. "You found it," he says. Relaxed smile. Happy eyes. .. "It’s been a long time," I say. I feel happy too, though strange at suddenly seeing the image move and talk.“

DeWeese Home, Cottonwood Canyon Road, Gallatin Gateway, MT. April 27, 2021: Tina DeWeese says “The large manipulated sheet metal relief sculpture [high at right, on the West wall of the house] was made by Gennie in the 60’s. The smaller piece [by walk way South wall] was Bob’s, a compositional construction of found wood scraps.”
….To see the artwork mentioned in the title above, double-click on the photo till you get the largest photo.
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An Excellent Overview: Bob & Gennie DeWeese And Their Life Of Art.
Thanks to Bozeman Chronicle For Article & /\ Above /\ Photo.
….This Is SAME Article Mentioned (with Link) TWO Photos Previous. Click Here For Entire Article.

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To See More Photos Of DeWeese Homestead, Horse Barns, AND Photos In Cottonwood Canyon, Plus Along The Gallatin National Forest Trail In Cottonwood Canyon, Plus Tina DeWeese, Dennis Davis, Lee Glover, and Yours Truly Henry Gurr.
Right Click, Select New Tab. And AFTER this Page of 18 Small Photos Comes Up, Scroll Down To (And Read) Seventh Thru Fifteenth Small Photos. You May Click-On Any Small Photo For A Larger View. A Second Click Will Get The Largest View. The Two Panoramas Are Very Large, And You Will Have To ClickDrag The Slide Bars To See Whole Panorama. ““
…. Many other photos are available. Please ask HenryG___USCA.edu
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Close Up => West Side Wall & Entrance to DeWeese Home.
….Contrary To The ZMM Narrative, The Porch Deck (In This 2002 Henry Gurr Photo), Painted Light Blue To Match The House.

…. “We dismount and take off our riding gear and I see that the open porch deck he and his guests are on is unfinished and unweathered. DeWeese looks down from where it is only a few feet above the road on our side, but the V of the canyon slants so steeply that on the far side the ground descends fifteen feet below the deck.“

DeWeese Home, Gallatin Gateway, MT. Back in 1968, When The Narrator, Chris & Sutherlands arrived, the DeWeese Home was relatively new. That’s why the ZMM Narrator earlier in Bozeman,discovered that the telephone operator didn’t have the DeWeese Home phone number, or. directions to their house.
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…. April 27, 2021, Tina DeWeese says => “This deck rail today is painted brick red and the Virginia Creeper and Pussy Willow have created a shield from the road, which has become heavily used by the public!”
….”Relative to your [Henry Gurr’s /\ Above 2002] Photo when the Willow and Virginia Creeper were BABIES!! This to the NW corner of the deck.” =>
…. Tina follows the above words with An Illustrative Attached Photo, which is the NEXT Photo.
….Speaking of her Parents in a later email, Tina said => They moved to Cottonwood in 1965.”. ….Thus in July 1968, three years later when the Narrator saw and said => “ the open porch deck “ could look new and unpainted to the Narrator, Chris, & The Sutherlands when they arrived..
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Here Again We Note The Factual Precision Of ZMM.
…. One of Robert Pirsig’s Twelve Known 1968 Pictures shows Gennie holding a tray of Trout. But beside Gennie is seen a small portion of deck handrail, which indeed is unpainted, and relatively new wood, just as the Narrator says in ZMM Passage above.
…..Because this photo happens to be at the rear of the house, you can also see down the steep slope to Cottonwood Creek in the distance. These facts are also written into =>The Factual Precision of the ZMM Narrative!
… Mr. Pirsig's 1968 Color Photo Of Gennie DeWeese & Trout.
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WE SEE FACTUAL PRECISION WRITTEN INTO ZMM.
…A) ZMM Passage 6th Photo Previous Said =>….“Right Out Of The Old Photographs.“
…B) AND In Above ZMM Passage We Read => “ Open Porch Deck He And His Guests Are On Is Unfinished And Unweathered.”
..… The Narrator gives us a related hint re how Robert Pirsig does his writing of ZMM => On page 110 when at (The Rock Creek Vista Point) he mentions they take obligatory “record photographs“!
…Certainly, this illustrates that as ZMM Author Robert Pirsig is writing, these photographs are on his mind. Of course, he tries to pretend he and his friends are NOT "tourists" as they take these photos.

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Northwest View => The Deck of the DeWeese Home April 27, 2021:
…This Photo From Tina DeWeese Shows The Deck Rail Is “Painted Brick Red”.
…… And As Tina Says: “In Summer Time The Virginia Creeper Plus Pussy Willow Have Created A Shield From The Road, Which Has Become Heavily Used By The Public!”

….[ “We dismount and take off our riding gear and I see that the open porch deck he and his guests are on is unfinished and unweathered. “ ]

DeWeese Home, Gallatin Gateway, MT.
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April 27, 2021: And Tina DeWeese says Of Her Emailed Photo /\ Above =>
Relative to your Photo [Henry Gurr’s 2002 Previous Photos of the DeWeese Home’s Deck], back when the Willow and Virginia Creeper were BABIES!”
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Here Again We Are Reminded Of => The Factual Precision Written Into ZMM !
….AND just in case you missed it, in Previous Photo, here is the link to =>
Mr. Pirsig's 1968 Color Photo Of Gennie DeWeese & Trout. This Factual Precision => Was/Is “Written Into ZMM “ open porch deck he and his guests are on is unfinished and unweathered.”

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A 2002 Photo Of Gennie DeWeese, And Her Daughters Tina & Gretchen.
….Taken in the DeWeese Home Dining Room, Which Continues To Look Much The Same Through The Years I Have Been There,
…. RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT “NEW TAB” => To See This Photo In Henry Gurr’s Personal ZMM Route Experiences Album; Click Here.

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Behind The DeWeese Home We See Cottonwood Canyon Valley Floor Plus More Ceramic Sculptures.
….And Seen Above The Ceramic Fish Is The Whitewater Of Cottonwood Creek.

…. “The stream itself appears another fifty feet down and away from the house, among trees and deep grass where a horse, partially hidden by the trees, grazes without looking up. Now we have to look high to see the sky. Surrounding us is the dark-green forest we watched as we approached.“

DeWeese Homestead, Gallatin Gateway, MT.

Concerning the /\ Above /\ 2002 Photo =>
….April 27, 2021:Tina DeWeese says => “These are fallen segments of another sculpture by the same artist mentioned earlier, Susan Henderson. I don’t remember who made the fish. This area, like the deck, is much grown over today, from when this picture was taken.”
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,,,,A REPEAT OF INFORMATION SHOWN IN A PREVIOUS PHOTO =>
,,,, Our Facebook Creator & Editor, David J. Matos , contributes this added information, concerning Susan Henderson’s Huge Ceramic Sculpture seen in Two Previous Photos =>
…A) “Susan Henderson Created +This ceramic sculpture, which is named The Three Graces. Click Here To See 3 Close-Up Photos, Back When Three Graces Were Newly Installed.
…B) Click Here To Learn More About Artist Susan Henderson, Of: Bozeman, MT.


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A Modern Version of Traditional Yurt Made In The 1970’s.
…By The Deweeses And Their Family Carpenter Friend Joop.
…..AND With Tina DeWeese As Assistant.
…….Notice That Yurt Platform Is Raised Up On Stilts To Be Above Flood Waters!

…. “’This is just beautiful!’ Sylvia says.
….The living image of DeWeese smiles down at her. ‘Thank you,’ he says, ‘I’m glad you like it.’ His tone is all here and now, completely relaxed. I realize that although this is the authentic image of DeWeese himself, it’s also a brand-new person who’s been renewing himself continually and I’m going to have to get to know him all over again.“

DeWeese Homestead, Gallatin Gateway, MT. In /\ Above Photo, notice the Wooden Walkway, which connects to the Stream Bank where I’m standing to take the photo. The Wooden Walkway gives access to the Yurt front door & storage platform, positioned along the right side of the Yurt.
….This Yurt was so successful thru the years that a Second Quite Similar Yurt was constructed nearby. These were low cost rental housing for Deserving Art Students at Montana State University.
…Despite the Super Cold of Montana Winters, a Central Wood burning Stove With Cook Top keeps the inside nice & cozy as needed. The Smoke Flue Pipe, seen at top of Yurt, also contribute to inside heat as it extends, ~4 feet from the Stove, to the roof line.

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Yes, Indeed, There Are Those Deck Boards With Spaces to See the Ground Below

…. “ We step up onto the deck. Between the floorboards it has spaces, like a grate. I can see the ground through them.“

DeWeese Home, Gallatin Gateway, MT.

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You Will Just Have to Imagine All These Guests On The Porch Deck At the DeWeese Home.

…. “With a "Well, I’m not quite sure how to do this" tone and smile, DeWeese makes introductions all around, but they’re in one ear and out the other. I can never remember names. His guests are an art instructor from the school who has horn-rimmed glasses, and his wife, who smiles self-consciously. They must be new. .. We talk for a while, DeWeese mainly explaining to them who I am, …. “

DeWeese Home, Gallatin Gateway, MT. .
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THE TOPIC OF => MASTER MOTIF IDEAS => AND DISCUSSION OF IDEAS CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS PHOTOS OF THIS ALBUM =>
….For Example => In a Long Previous Photo showing The Hotel Hurzler in Laurel, MT, The narrator says “The branches and leaves move with each light breeze as if it were expected, were what had been waited for all this time. ….
….As stated in those previous photos, our minds should come to attention when we read => The Above Word “Breeze.”
…AND similarly, our minds should come to attention => with any Narrator mention of words related to => “The wind” & “Listening to the wind”: These are Narrator words, which happen in NEXT PHOTO.
….At such occurrence =>We should immediately think of “MASTER MOTIF IDEAS”, as discussed in => “The Guidebook To ZMM”!
….THEN we are supposed to wonder what major “new arrival” ” is being thusly pre-announced: … What’s coming? …What is being foretold?
….Please consider the following =>
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IN PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT PHOTO => PLEASE KNOW THAT => … “The Wind” or “Listening To The Wind” … Are Yet Additional ZMM “Master Motifs”, As Is Much Discussed In => The Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. by Ronald L. DiSanto, Tomas J. Steele.
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AFTER THE NEXT PHOTO => **THE FOLLOWING FIVE PHOTOS** WILL BE GIVING FULL ATTENTION TO ZMM “MASTER MOTIF => ” WIND”.

….The Idea Of A “Master Motif” Comes From => “The Guidebook To ZMM” .
…. But In A Literary Work, What Is A Motif?
….”A Motif is a literary technique that consists of a repeated element that has symbolic significance to a literary work. Sometimes, a motif is a recurring image. Other times, it’s a repeated word, phrase, or topic expressed in language. A motif can be a recurring situation or action. It can be a sound or smell, a temperature, even a color. …. The key aspect is that a motif repeats, and through this repetition helps to illuminate the dominant ideas, central themes, and deeper meaning of a story.”
For Further Discussion, Explanation & Details Re Motif, Click Here: Then scroll around the succession of ~7 photos, to continue all the reading to the end of page.

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In Explaining Who He Is => The ZMM Narrator Uses SIX New Master Motifs =>
… 1) “HERE NOW”
… 2) “THE SUN DIFFUSES”
… 3) ”A HALATION OF THE LIGHT COMES”
… 4) THE HALO EXPANDS”
… 5) “A SUDDEN FLASH”
… 6) “A SINGLE BIRD CRIES PLAINTIVELY”

…. “ But what DeWeese and I know and the Sutherlands don’t know is that there was someone, a person who lived here once, who was creatively on fire with a set of ideas no one had ever heard of before, but then something unexplained and wrong happened and DeWeese doesn’t know how or why and neither do I. The reason for the impasse, the bad feeling, is that DeWeese thinks that person is here now. And there’s no way I can tell him otherwise.
.. .. For a brief moment, way up at the top of the ridge, the sun diffuses through the trees and a halation of the light comes down to us. The halo expands, capturing everything in a sudden flash, and suddenly it catches me too.
.... "He saw too much," I say, still thinking about the impasse, but DeWeese looks puzzled and John doesn’t register at all, and I realize the non sequitur too late. In the distance a single bird cries plaintively.
….. Now suddenly the sun is gone behind the mountain and the whole canyon is in dull shadow.“
DeWeese Home, Gallatin Gateway, MT.
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As You Read ZMM, BE ALERT FOR MASTER MOTIFS SUCH AS THE SIX LISTED ABOVE AT TOP.

….In EACH of these, Author Robert Pirsig is Sending & Revealing Important Messages For You, The ZMM Reader.

…WHEN YOU READ ZMM MASTER MOTIF PHRASES LIKE THESE SIX => PAY ATTENTION!!
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SIDE NOTE: The Narrator says => “I Realize The Non Sequitur Too Late”
…. DeWeese & John are confused, because there is no way for them to know => WHO IS THE **HE** THAT => "saw too much."
….The phrase => “ In the distance a single bird cries plaintively “ is Author Robert Pirsig’s way of telling us as readers that something pretty bad has happened.


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Professor Forest B Shearon, In His Book Review Of ZMM Writes =>
…."Thus the narrator, caught in the sun-created halo, blurts out to his confused friends his deepest fears about the madman who formerly resided in his body. Because Phaedrus "saw too much," the light went out for him just as the sun set ‘ suddenly the sun is gone ‘“ for the narrator that day on DeWeese's deck. The episode is a clear example of Pirsig's artistic manipulation of imagery in an autobiographical book.” .
….Passage above is from Guidebook to ZMM . . on page 332,
This valuable guidebook is by Ronald DiSanto & Tomas J. Steele.

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IN ADDITION => BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR MASTER MOTIFS IN ZMM THAT INVOLVE => “HERE & NOW” Such As =>
.. hereness and nowness. (1)
… ‘here and now”(of things) (3)
… “here now” (8)
… “here right now” (2)
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…FOR EXAMPLE1: People In A Hurry, Going Somewhere Else, Are An opposite of Quality. =>
…. what’s here right now is just something to get through. The drivers seem to be thinking about where they want to be rather than where they are.
…FOR EXAMPLE2: “Here & Now” Is A Major Point Of ZMM, Because This Is An Essence of QUALITY =>
…. The past cannot remember the past. The future can’t generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.
….Value, the leading edge of reality, is no longer an irrelevant offshoot of structure. Value is the predecessor of structure. It’s the preintellectual awareness that gives rise to it. Our structured reality is preselected on the basis of value, and really to understand structured reality requires an understanding of the value source from which it’s derived.

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Continuing Master Motif =>
….LISTENING TO THE WIND (1 of 5).

The ZMM Narrator Again Uses A Master Motif =>
….“The Cold Wind Comes Down the Mountainside. .“

….“When we come down to the living room I can smell the aroma from the frying trout in the kitchen. At one end of the room DeWeese is bent over the fireplace holding a match to some newspaper under the kindling. We watch him for a while.
.... ‘We use this fireplace all summer long,’ he says.
.... I reply, ‘I’m surprised it’s this cold.’
.... Chris says he’s cold too. I send him back up for his sweater and mine as well.
.... ‘It’s the evening wind,’ DeWeese says. ‘It sweeps down the canyon from up high where it’s really cold.’
.... The fire flares suddenly and then dies and then flares again from an uneven draft. It must be windy, I think, and look through the huge windows that line one wall of the living room. Across the canyon in the dusk I see the sharp movement of the trees.
.... ‘But that’s right,’ DeWeese says. ‘You know how cold it is up there. You used to spend all your time up there.’
.. ‘It brings back memories,’ I say. .. A single fragment comes to mind now of night winds all around a campfire, smaller than this one before us now, sheltered in the rock against the high wind because there are no trees.“ (Continued next.)
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DeWeese Home, Gallatin Gateway, MT. While in this area I (Henry Gurr, June 23 2002), did experience the cold and need for a fire.
….However, I did not notice any wind. Perhaps the strong winds come from new cold fronts, which did NOT happen while I was there.
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GIVING ATTENTION TO “MASTER MOTIFs IN ZMM =>
….A Repeat Of Motif Ideas From Previous Photos, Since Applies To =>” WIND”. .
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…Earlier in this Album, Photos Along The Road From Laurel, MT To Red Lodge, MT. =>
….Had ZMM Passages Where ZMM Narrator Emphasized Many Times, => “ Bright Light, Dark Shadows, Dark Blue Sky. .... Hot .... Suddenly Cold. ”
….These Were in relation to the real physical ”High Country” .AND the purely spiritual. “High Country of The Mind!”
….And the discussion explained how these ZMM Phrases, since repeated with emphasis, were called “‘Master Motifs’’ by “The Guidebook To Zen And The Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance” .
… This SAME EMPHASIS also applies to the ZMM Narrator’s above use of word ”WIND”. . (Continued Next Photo)

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Continuing Master Motif =>
….LISTENING TO THE WIND (2 of 5).
…… “Sparks … Drawn By The Wind .... "

The ZMM Narrator Tells Us All The Details About The Fine Evening At The DeWeese Home, Including A Whole Mini-Lecture “Speechifying” On =>
…. “The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn’t any other test. If the machine produces tranquillity it’s right. If it disturbs you it’s wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed. The test of the machine’s always your own mind”… . There isn’t any other test."
….Which Continues With Assembly Of Rotisserie Or Bicycle =>
…. “But if you have to choose among an infinite number of ways to put it together then the relation of the machine to you, and the relation of the machine and you to the rest of the world, has to be considered, because the selection from many choices, the art of the work is just as dependent upon your own mind and spirit as it is upon the material of the machine. That’s why you need the peace of mind." And Late, After All The Guests Have Left =>
…. “After the party is over and the Sutherlands and Chris have gone to bed, DeWeese recalls my lecture, however. He says seriously, "What you said about the rotisserie instructions was interesting."
....Gennie adds, also seriously, "It sounded like you had been thinking about it for a long time."
...."I’ve been thinking about concepts that underlie it for twenty years," I say.
....Beyond the chair in front of me, sparks fly up the chimney, drawn by the wind outside, now stronger than before. (Continued next.)


DeWeese Home, Gallatin Gateway, MT.
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GIVING ATTENTION TO “MASTER MOTIFs IN ZMM =>
….When You Read ABOVE Words => “sparks … drawn by the wind .... " =>
….Did you immediately think => Master Motif Here?? !! => And did you then think => “What is this especially telling us? What is being “foretold”?
….Here we are to note the Narrator's much larger than normal emphasis, and continuing emphasis on LISTENING TO THE WIND!

…. In ZMM There Are 68 Instances Of The Stand-Alone Word “Wind” .
….And in most of these uses of “Wind” in Mr. Pirsig’s writing we should look for => An extra special emphasis, connotation, meaning, or sense, related to the ZMM Narrator’s Chautauqua Topic. (Continued Next Photo)

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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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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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The Completion Of Master Motif =>
….LISTENING TO THE WIND (5 of 5).

At The End of Chapter 14, As The Narrator Drifts Off Into Dreams, He Has Idealized Visions Of => …. Snowfields and Mountains and Winds …

…. [ "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.“ ]
….“ ‘You can start from right here,’ DeWeese says, ‘and head back up the canyon. There’s no road for seventy-five miles.’ .. "Then this is where we’ll start," I say.
.... Upstairs I’m glad to see the bed’s heavy quilt again. It’s become quite cold now and it’ll be needed. I undress quickly and get way down deep under the quilt where it is warm, very warm, and think for a long time about snowfields and winds and Christopher Columbus. .. “

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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…In The Previous Photo The Narrator Says He Was =>
….” 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. ”
.IMPORTANT TO NOTICE RE ABOVE PASSAGE =>:….
From Time Of Saying This …Three Days Later … The ZMM Narrator Will Continue His “ Huge and Difficult ” Thinking “ In The Mountains On Foot ” With Chris:
….AND, As You Will See, Their Whole Mountain Climb Metaphorically Shows => It’s all so huge and difficult. Like trying to travel through these mountains on foot
….IMPORTANT TO NOTE: The Narrator’s Mountain Climb with Chris, in Chapter 16, Starts ZMM Part III. We should remember that in this SECOND Half of ZMM, Robert Pirsig finishes his “working out of” his Metaphysics of Quality: This presentation is ultimately one of the major reason for writing his book.

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The Road Back To Bozeman.

…. “ … and then it’s time for John and Sylvia to turn back home. We ride into Bozeman from the canyon now, together for the last time. Up ahead Sylvia’s turned around for the third time, evidently to see if we’re all right. She’s been very quiet the last two days. A glance from her yesterday seemed apprehensive, almost frightened. She worries too much about Chris and me."

After leaving DeWeese Home, just after South Cottonwood Road turns to Go Directly North, Gallatin Gateway, MT. As we will see later in ZMM (both Parts III & IV) => Sylvia's very real & continuing worries are well founded.
….The ZMM Narrator, to increase our appreciation of his troubles throughout ZMM, keeps dropping these small and large warnings foreshadowing imminent disaster.
….Of course, this is also a mark of a good story-teller, because it keeps us worrying what’s going to happen! A Cliff Hanger!!

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