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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