Photos Illustrate Pirsig's "Zen Art Motorcycle Maintenance" :: Part II: The Illustrated "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Chapters 8 thru 15.

Looking Over the Yellowstone River Valley (Sept 9, 2006) …When Viewed From I-94 On A South River Bluff, You Can See At Right, The North River Bluff, And Thus Discern That The Valley Is Getting Narrower. …The Irrigation Ditch Has Water From The Yellowstone River => ….But The River Itself Is Hidden In the Trees Along The North River Bluff, In The Distance. ….. “The formation of hypotheses is the most mysterious of all the categories of scientific method. Where they come from, no one knows. A person is sitting somewhere, minding his own business, and suddenly—flash!—he understands something he didn’t understand before. Until it’s tested the hypothesis isn’t truth. For the tests aren’t its source. Its source is somewhere else. ….. " ************** … “ Einstein had said “ : …. “ Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world. He then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. …..He makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life in order to find in this way the peace and serenity which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience . . . .The supreme task . . . is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them . . . . Intuition? Sympathy? Strange words for the origin of scientific knowledge. " …. “ A lesser scientist than Einstein might have said, "But scientific knowledge comes from nature. Nature provides the hypotheses." But Einstein understood that nature does not. Nature provides only experimental data. ….A lesser mind might then have said, "Well then, man provides the hypotheses." But Einstein denied this too. "Nobody," he said, "who has really gone into the matter will deny that in practice the world of phenomena uniquely determines the theoretical system, in spite of the fact that there is no theoretical bridge between phenomena and their theoretical principles." (Continued next.) " SIDE NOTE: …. In the above TOP ZMM PASSAGE, the Narrator is telling of the important mental happening called “The Flash Of Insight.” This same mental process (and event), is discussed 19 times in ZMM with words => Seed Crystal (3), Crystallization (6), Waves of Crystallization (10). …Other Instructive Examples of' “Crystallizations” May Be Called “Mental Arrivals” Such As => ..1) A Flash of Insight, ..2) It Dawned On Me ! ..3) Light Bulb (As in a cartoon), ..4) OH !! Now I see it !! ..5) Epiphany ../6) Sudden laughter when hit by the punch-line, In Jokes or Humor, where we instantly see what is funny, with laughter & pleasure! Please Notice The Following => ..A) The above 1) thru 6), are in response to our brain’s solving life’s problems coming at us (over ~95 percent of the time), our brain very quickly, yields (into our conscious mind) valid problem solutions (answers), that amazingly are the Best Or Near Best Answers, for the situation at hand. B) These solutions are effectively 1) Perceptions of “What Is There”, and then 2) Answers, to guide “Real World Action”. C) These solutions spontaneously “Come To Mind”, with absolutely no conscious awareness of their origin!! D) These solutions suddenly, Just Appear (or Arrive) in our Consciousness Mind, ….************ … For Your Continued Reading => ….You Can See This Above Narrator’s “Importance”. By Reading Carefully And Fully Understanding, My Extensive Webpages. Start Here => …. A New & Vial & Unified Panorama View Into “How Our Mind Works, In The Creation of Conscious Awareness. Click Here. ….********** … I-94, 3 miles West of Custer, MT. As you will learn The Yellowstone River Valley has little drop in elevation it’s length, in Montana. This makes for a wide, deep, and calm river, which is of course great for river navigation! But it also means the traveler often cannot find a high enough vantage place, from which to see the river, or even guess where it is! ….As a consequence, In this area of the West, the traveler must learn to notice a line of trees, and imagine that that's where a river or a stream is. *********************** (Photo = Summer2006 0353 ...... ZMM Page = 99...... WayPt Between = 112 & 113) Viewed: 2506 times.	Looking Over The Yellowstone River Valley (June 20, 2002) …When Viewed From I-94 Rest Area On The South River Bluff, You Can See The North River Bluff, In The Distance. ….But The River Is Hidden In the Trees, Just This Side of The North River Bluffs. …… The Yellowstone River Valley Is Relatively Level. This Makes For a Wide, Deep, and Calm River, Which Is Great For River Navigation! But It Also Means The Traveler Can Not Often See The River, or Even Guess Where It Is. ….“Einstein had said, "Evolution [of science] has shown that at any given moment out of all conceivable [theory] constructions a single one has always proved itself absolutely superior to the rest," and let it go at that. But to Phædrus that was an incredibly weak answer. The phrase "at any given moment" really shook him. Did Einstein really mean to state that truth was a function of time? To state that would annihilate the most basic presumption of all science! .... But there it was, the whole history of science, a clear story of continuously new and changing explanations of old facts. " (Continued next.) I-94 Rest Area, 5 Mi West of Custer, MT. I experienced rest, diminishing hunger pangs, and needed relief at this Rest Area, as I contemplated this peaceful early evening scene! I was now back-on “known territory” after getting lost, farther and farther into back-country, for which I had no map, and no other source of information. ….This was just over an hour ago => While researching possible ZMM “back-country roads”, after Hysham, MT, surprise, I was unknowingly diverted over the bridge near Myers MT. Not knowing where I was going on the twisty, circuitous, roads, I had a long and anxious detour! … My companion had been an ever increasing anxiety over an empty gas tank! ….************** … From Previous Photo, A Continuation Of = Flash Of Insight & Crystallization Topics, AND …. How These Relate To Penetrated Narrowly Into His Own Personal Experience, By Jules Henri Poincaré ( 1854 to 1912), A Professor At The University of Paris. ….************ … … Beginning of ZMM Chapter 22: After Saying Goodbye To The DeWeese’s, The ZMM Narrator Introduces Poincare’, and Why Important To Him => ….“I want to talk today about a person whom Phædrus never heard of, but whose writings I’ve studied quite extensively in preparation for this Chautauqua. Unlike Phædrus, this man was an international celebrity at thirty-five, a living legend at fifty-eight, whom Bertrand Russell has described as "by general agreement, the most eminent scientific man of his generation." He was an astronomer, a physicist, a mathematician and philosopher all in one. His name was Jules Henri Poincaré” * And Later The Narrator Tells Us * …...“Phædrus follows a long and tortuous path into the highest abstractions, seems about to come down and then stops. Poincaré starts with the most basic scientific verities, works up to the same abstractions and then stops. Both trails stop right at each other’s end! There is perfect continuity between them. When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event. Like Robinson Crusoe’s discovery of footprints on the sand. ” ….************ … BECAUSE IMPORTANT FOR UNDERSTANDING “THE CREATION OF SCIENCE”. ZMM CHAPTER 22, QUOTES EXTENSIVELY FROM => …. Poincare’s Own Chapter “Mathematical Creation ” From His 1908 Book “ The Foundations Of Science: Science And Hypothesis, The Value Of Science, Science And Method. ”, ……Wherein Poincare’ Gives Examples (Recognizable as Flashes of Insight), Of The Own Mathematical Creation Events In His Mind. For Example => …. He was about to enter a bus, and at the moment when he put his foot on the step, the idea came to him, without anything in his former thoughts having paved the way for it, ” ((The ZMM Narrator calls the above and 5 different similar Poincare’ examples, waves of crystallization, . ….What Poincare Described Above, Is Very Much As Author Robert Pirsig Described, Earlier In This Chapter 22 => …“The formation of hypotheses is the most mysterious of all the categories of scientific method. Where they come from, no one knows. A person is sitting somewhere, minding his own business, and suddenly—flash!—[mental crystallization] he understands something he didn’t understand before. Until it’s tested the hypothesis isn’t truth. For the tests aren’t its source. Its source is somewhere else. ….. " ************ … To Read & Understand More Poincare’s => “Mathematical Creation ”** ,…..This WebPage will give you a compact, well focused understanding of ~5 different Poincare’ waves of crystallization. ….Click Here For => “ Inclining the Mind Toward ‘Sudden Illumination’: French Polymath Henri Poincaré on How Creativity Works..” ************************* (Photo = 0554c ...... ZMM Page = 100...... WayPt = 113) Viewed: 818 times.	The Yellowstone River Valley Looking Over the Yellowstone River. View From I-94 On A South Bluff. You Can Tell the Valley Is Getting Ever Narrower Yet. ((An earlier Narrator's description also applies here:])) …. [ “Outside in the valley again the sky is still limited by the bluffs on either side of the river, but they are closer together and closer to us than they were this morning. The valley is narrowing as we move toward the river’s source. " ] ….************ … I-94, ~4 miles West of Custer, MT. Here the river has been forced to cut deeper. as evidenced by the much higher bluffs. This correspondingly made the distance between the bluffs much closer. ….But this valley doesn't always get narrower. Ahead, after Billings, MT, the river evidently flows through a practically level stretch, with much wider distance between the bluffs, if any. ….********** … NEW TOPIC Re Lewis and Clark’s “Pompey’s Pillar”, & Travel Route Going West Southwest After Casper, MT.** ….Earlier this day, halfway between Custer, MT, & Billings, MT, I got off I-94 where a sign that directed me to see “Pompey’s Pillar”. After leaving “The Pillar”, I turned back onto close by old US 10/312 (which is a North Side I-94 marginal), on which I continued on to Huntley, MT, and. there I resumed West on I-94. ….HOWEVER: The ZMM Traveler might better => Find & follow those portions of Old US-10, delineated in Earlier Photo of “ Site Of Enormous High-Celling Old Pace.” ….************ … ….NOTE: This famous Pompey’s Pillar attraction, is curiously UN-mentioned in ZMM, despite the Narrator's stated interest in Lewis and Clark. AND apparently the Narrator & Chris, went on by, despite it's being clearly marked by signs, and is easily visible to the West from along the older Marginal Highway 312, West adjacent to I-94. ….Passed on by, just because it IS a “Tourist Attraction”? .************************* . Excerpts From Wikipedia: … …Pompeys Pillar National Monument is a rock formation located in south central Montana, United States. Designated a National Monument on January 17, 2001, and managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in conjunction with The Friends of Pompeys Pillar, it consists of only 51 acres (21 ha), making it one of the smallest National Monuments in the U.S. The community of Pompeys Pillar lies just east of the monument. …William Clark named the outcropping after Jean Baptiste Charbonneau—the son of expedition member Sacagawea—whom he nicknamed "Pompey". His original name for it was "Pompey's Tower"; it was changed to the current title in 1814. ….Situated 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Billings, Montana, along Interstate 94, the pillar gets 50,000 visitors annually. Archeological evidence suggests that the outcropping has been witness to 11,000 years of human involvement in the area. Consequently, in addition to the pictographs and the signature of William Clark, hundreds of other people have carved their initials into the rock, including early pioneers to the area. Wikipedia. Has More Information, and 3 Good Photos. Click Here. …The name Pompey comes from a famous Ancient Roman General => … Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Latin; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey /ˈpɒmpiː/ or Pompey the Great, was a leading Roman general and statesman. He played a significant role in the transformation of Rome from republic to empire. …The name Pompey should not be confused with Pompeii (/pɒmˈpeɪ(i)/, Latin: [pɔmˈpei̯.iː]), an ancient city located near Naples in Italy. Click Here For => Henry Gurr’s Photos of Pompeys Pillar & More Information. ATTENTON => AFTER This Page Comes Up => Here Especially Read Photo Titled => “What Makes Pompys Pillar Lewis & Clark Spot Unique AND Below See 3 Blue Internet Links To Much Good General Tourist Information, Each With Many Good Photos. THE INCREDIBLE LEWIS & CLARK’S SACAGAWEA STORY & HISTORY; Is Continued At The 4th Photo NEXT. *********************** (Photo = Summer2006 0360 Viewed: 2446 times.
One Of Many Montana Local History Signs For The Traveler => ….Explains History Of Area Where Big Horn River Flows Into The Yellowstone River. At End, Things Got To Be Brutal.. [[The ZMM Narrator has just finished explaining some of the conclusions of Phaedrus, and turns to some VERY important conclusions.as follows => ]] …. “ As I’ve said, he did in the end offer a number of solutions, but the problem was so deep and so formidable and complex that no one really understood the gravity of what he was resolving, and so failed to understand or misunderstood what he said. …..The cause of our current social crises, he would have said, is a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself. And until this genetic defect is cleared, the crises will continue. Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is—emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty. That, today, is where it is at, and will continue to be at for a long time to come. ….I’ve a vision of an angry continuing social crisis that no one really understands the depth of, let alone has solutions to. I see people like John and Sylvia living lost and alienated from the whole rational structure of civilized life, looking for solutions outside that structure, but finding none that are really satisfactory for long. And then I’ve a vision of Phædrus and his lone isolated abstractions in the laboratory...actually concerned with the same crisis but starting from another point, moving in the opposite direction...and what I’m trying to do here is put it all together. It’s so big...that’s why I seem to wander sometimes. “ ….(( The Narrator’s above “ a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself. And ….. Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world.. “.applies to the NEXT Photo” …. AND will also serve to illustrate (as mentioned in 3rd sentence above). how => “ John and Sylvia living lost and alienated from the whole rational structure of civilized life …. “.)} I-94 Rest Area 5 Miles West of Custer, MT. My navigation by “dead reckoning” and luck had returned me well enough to I-94, for food, and gas at Casper MT. Then driving here, I found a nice place to rest. While eating my “gas station burger,” I looked over the Yellowstone River Valley to the North, and read signs about local history. ….My map does not mark any reasonable non-interstate roads for the next 23 miles stretch between Custer, MT. and Nibbe, MT. Thus I was “forced to take the Interstate”. ….************ … A NOTE RE The /\ Above Photo of Local History Sign, Relates To US Military Treatment Of Native Americans: ….The town of Custer, MT, was named for General George Armstrong Custer, who died at the Battle of Little Big Horn. The battle site is named after the Big Horn River, which runs from the Wyoming Mountains to the Yellowstone River, Just East of Custer, MT. The Custer Battlefield Nat’l Monument is about 40 miles South of here. … Wikipedia Has Full Information & Many Contemporary Photos, Concerning The Battle of Little Big Horn. Click Here. *********************** (Photo = 105-0556 …… ZMM Page 102 ...... WayPt = 113w)

Looking Over the Yellowstone River Valley (Sept 9, 2006) …When Viewed From I-94 On A South River Bluff, You Can See At Right, The North River Bluff, And Thus Discern That The Valley Is Getting Narrower. …The Irrigation Ditch Has Water From The Yellowstone River => ….But The River Itself Is Hidden In the Trees Along The North River Bluff, In The Distance. ….. “The formation of hypotheses is the most mysterious of all the categories of scientific method. Where they come from, no one knows. A person is sitting somewhere, minding his own business, and suddenly—flash!—he understands something he didn’t understand before. Until it’s tested the hypothesis isn’t truth. For the tests aren’t its source. Its source is somewhere else. ….. " ************** … “ Einstein had said “ : …. “ Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world. He then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. …..He makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life in order to find in this way the peace and serenity which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience . . . .The supreme task . . . is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them . . . . Intuition? Sympathy? Strange words for the origin of scientific knowledge. " …. “ A lesser scientist than Einstein might have said, "But scientific knowledge comes from nature. Nature provides the hypotheses." But Einstein understood that nature does not. Nature provides only experimental data. ….A lesser mind might then have said, "Well then, man provides the hypotheses." But Einstein denied this too. "Nobody," he said, "who has really gone into the matter will deny that in practice the world of phenomena uniquely determines the theoretical system, in spite of the fact that there is no theoretical bridge between phenomena and their theoretical principles." (Continued next.) " SIDE NOTE: …. In the above TOP ZMM PASSAGE, the Narrator is telling of the important mental happening called “The Flash Of Insight.” This same mental process (and event), is discussed 19 times in ZMM with words => Seed Crystal (3), Crystallization (6), Waves of Crystallization (10). …Other Instructive Examples of' “Crystallizations” May Be Called “Mental Arrivals” Such As => ..1) A Flash of Insight, ..2) It Dawned On Me ! ..3) Light Bulb (As in a cartoon), ..4) OH !! Now I see it !! ..5) Epiphany ../6) Sudden laughter when hit by the punch-line, In Jokes or Humor, where we instantly see what is funny, with laughter & pleasure! Please Notice The Following => ..A) The above 1) thru 6), are in response to our brain’s solving life’s problems coming at us (over ~95 percent of the time), our brain very quickly, yields (into our conscious mind) valid problem solutions (answers), that amazingly are the Best Or Near Best Answers, for the situation at hand. B) These solutions are effectively 1) Perceptions of “What Is There”, and then 2) Answers, to guide “Real World Action”. C) These solutions spontaneously “Come To Mind”, with absolutely no conscious awareness of their origin!! D) These solutions suddenly, Just Appear (or Arrive) in our Consciousness Mind, ….************ … For Your Continued Reading => ….You Can See This Above Narrator’s “Importance”. By Reading Carefully And Fully Understanding, My Extensive Webpages. Start Here => …. A New & Vial & Unified Panorama View Into “How Our Mind Works, In The Creation of Conscious Awareness. Click Here. ….********** … I-94, 3 miles West of Custer, MT. As you will learn The Yellowstone River Valley has little drop in elevation it’s length, in Montana. This makes for a wide, deep, and calm river, which is of course great for river navigation! But it also means the traveler often cannot find a high enough vantage place, from which to see the river, or even guess where it is! ….As a consequence, In this area of the West, the traveler must learn to notice a line of trees, and imagine that that's where a river or a stream is. *********************** (Photo = Summer2006 0353 ...... ZMM Page = 99...... WayPt Between = 112 & 113) Viewed: 2506 times.	Looking Over The Yellowstone River Valley (June 20, 2002) …When Viewed From I-94 Rest Area On The South River Bluff, You Can See The North River Bluff, In The Distance. ….But The River Is Hidden In the Trees, Just This Side of The North River Bluffs. …… The Yellowstone River Valley Is Relatively Level. This Makes For a Wide, Deep, and Calm River, Which Is Great For River Navigation! But It Also Means The Traveler Can Not Often See The River, or Even Guess Where It Is. ….“Einstein had said, "Evolution [of science] has shown that at any given moment out of all conceivable [theory] constructions a single one has always proved itself absolutely superior to the rest," and let it go at that. But to Phædrus that was an incredibly weak answer. The phrase "at any given moment" really shook him. Did Einstein really mean to state that truth was a function of time? To state that would annihilate the most basic presumption of all science! .... But there it was, the whole history of science, a clear story of continuously new and changing explanations of old facts. " (Continued next.) I-94 Rest Area, 5 Mi West of Custer, MT. I experienced rest, diminishing hunger pangs, and needed relief at this Rest Area, as I contemplated this peaceful early evening scene! I was now back-on “known territory” after getting lost, farther and farther into back-country, for which I had no map, and no other source of information. ….This was just over an hour ago => While researching possible ZMM “back-country roads”, after Hysham, MT, surprise, I was unknowingly diverted over the bridge near Myers MT. Not knowing where I was going on the twisty, circuitous, roads, I had a long and anxious detour! … My companion had been an ever increasing anxiety over an empty gas tank! ….************** … From Previous Photo, A Continuation Of = Flash Of Insight & Crystallization Topics, AND …. How These Relate To Penetrated Narrowly Into His Own Personal Experience, By Jules Henri Poincaré ( 1854 to 1912), A Professor At The University of Paris. ….************ … … Beginning of ZMM Chapter 22: After Saying Goodbye To The DeWeese’s, The ZMM Narrator Introduces Poincare’, and Why Important To Him => ….“I want to talk today about a person whom Phædrus never heard of, but whose writings I’ve studied quite extensively in preparation for this Chautauqua. Unlike Phædrus, this man was an international celebrity at thirty-five, a living legend at fifty-eight, whom Bertrand Russell has described as "by general agreement, the most eminent scientific man of his generation." He was an astronomer, a physicist, a mathematician and philosopher all in one. His name was Jules Henri Poincaré” * And Later The Narrator Tells Us * …...“Phædrus follows a long and tortuous path into the highest abstractions, seems about to come down and then stops. Poincaré starts with the most basic scientific verities, works up to the same abstractions and then stops. Both trails stop right at each other’s end! There is perfect continuity between them. When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event. Like Robinson Crusoe’s discovery of footprints on the sand. ” ….************ … BECAUSE IMPORTANT FOR UNDERSTANDING “THE CREATION OF SCIENCE”. ZMM CHAPTER 22, QUOTES EXTENSIVELY FROM => …. Poincare’s Own Chapter “Mathematical Creation ” From His 1908 Book “ The Foundations Of Science: Science And Hypothesis, The Value Of Science, Science And Method. ”, ……Wherein Poincare’ Gives Examples (Recognizable as Flashes of Insight), Of The Own Mathematical Creation Events In His Mind. For Example => …. He was about to enter a bus, and at the moment when he put his foot on the step, the idea came to him, without anything in his former thoughts having paved the way for it, ” ((The ZMM Narrator calls the above and 5 different similar Poincare’ examples, waves of crystallization, . ….What Poincare Described Above, Is Very Much As Author Robert Pirsig Described, Earlier In This Chapter 22 => …“The formation of hypotheses is the most mysterious of all the categories of scientific method. Where they come from, no one knows. A person is sitting somewhere, minding his own business, and suddenly—flash!—[mental crystallization] he understands something he didn’t understand before. Until it’s tested the hypothesis isn’t truth. For the tests aren’t its source. Its source is somewhere else. ….. " ************ … To Read & Understand More Poincare’s => “Mathematical Creation ”** ,…..This WebPage will give you a compact, well focused understanding of ~5 different Poincare’ waves of crystallization. ….Click Here For => “ Inclining the Mind Toward ‘Sudden Illumination’: French Polymath Henri Poincaré on How Creativity Works..” ************************* (Photo = 0554c ...... ZMM Page = 100...... WayPt = 113) Viewed: 818 times.	The Yellowstone River Valley Looking Over the Yellowstone River. View From I-94 On A South Bluff. You Can Tell the Valley Is Getting Ever Narrower Yet. ((An earlier Narrator's description also applies here:])) …. [ “Outside in the valley again the sky is still limited by the bluffs on either side of the river, but they are closer together and closer to us than they were this morning. The valley is narrowing as we move toward the river’s source. " ] ….************ … I-94, ~4 miles West of Custer, MT. Here the river has been forced to cut deeper. as evidenced by the much higher bluffs. This correspondingly made the distance between the bluffs much closer. ….But this valley doesn't always get narrower. Ahead, after Billings, MT, the river evidently flows through a practically level stretch, with much wider distance between the bluffs, if any. ….********** … NEW TOPIC Re Lewis and Clark’s “Pompey’s Pillar”, & Travel Route Going West Southwest After Casper, MT.** ….Earlier this day, halfway between Custer, MT, & Billings, MT, I got off I-94 where a sign that directed me to see “Pompey’s Pillar”. After leaving “The Pillar”, I turned back onto close by old US 10/312 (which is a North Side I-94 marginal), on which I continued on to Huntley, MT, and. there I resumed West on I-94. ….HOWEVER: The ZMM Traveler might better => Find & follow those portions of Old US-10, delineated in Earlier Photo of “ Site Of Enormous High-Celling Old Pace.” ….************ … ….NOTE: This famous Pompey’s Pillar attraction, is curiously UN-mentioned in ZMM, despite the Narrator's stated interest in Lewis and Clark. AND apparently the Narrator & Chris, went on by, despite it's being clearly marked by signs, and is easily visible to the West from along the older Marginal Highway 312, West adjacent to I-94. ….Passed on by, just because it IS a “Tourist Attraction”? .************************* . Excerpts From Wikipedia: … …Pompeys Pillar National Monument is a rock formation located in south central Montana, United States. Designated a National Monument on January 17, 2001, and managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in conjunction with The Friends of Pompeys Pillar, it consists of only 51 acres (21 ha), making it one of the smallest National Monuments in the U.S. The community of Pompeys Pillar lies just east of the monument. …William Clark named the outcropping after Jean Baptiste Charbonneau—the son of expedition member Sacagawea—whom he nicknamed "Pompey". His original name for it was "Pompey's Tower"; it was changed to the current title in 1814. ….Situated 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Billings, Montana, along Interstate 94, the pillar gets 50,000 visitors annually. Archeological evidence suggests that the outcropping has been witness to 11,000 years of human involvement in the area. Consequently, in addition to the pictographs and the signature of William Clark, hundreds of other people have carved their initials into the rock, including early pioneers to the area. Wikipedia. Has More Information, and 3 Good Photos. Click Here. …The name Pompey comes from a famous Ancient Roman General => … Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Latin; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey /ˈpɒmpiː/ or Pompey the Great, was a leading Roman general and statesman. He played a significant role in the transformation of Rome from republic to empire. …The name Pompey should not be confused with Pompeii (/pɒmˈpeɪ(i)/, Latin: [pɔmˈpei̯.iː]), an ancient city located near Naples in Italy. Click Here For => Henry Gurr’s Photos of Pompeys Pillar & More Information. ATTENTON => AFTER This Page Comes Up => Here Especially Read Photo Titled => “What Makes Pompys Pillar Lewis & Clark Spot Unique AND Below See 3 Blue Internet Links To Much Good General Tourist Information, Each With Many Good Photos. THE INCREDIBLE LEWIS & CLARK’S SACAGAWEA STORY & HISTORY; Is Continued At The 4th Photo NEXT. *********************** (Photo = Summer2006 0360 Viewed: 2446 times.
One Of Many Montana Local History Signs For The Traveler => ….Explains History Of Area Where Big Horn River Flows Into The Yellowstone River. At End, Things Got To Be Brutal.. [[The ZMM Narrator has just finished explaining some of the conclusions of Phaedrus, and turns to some VERY important conclusions.as follows => ]] …. “ As I’ve said, he did in the end offer a number of solutions, but the problem was so deep and so formidable and complex that no one really understood the gravity of what he was resolving, and so failed to understand or misunderstood what he said. …..The cause of our current social crises, he would have said, is a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself. And until this genetic defect is cleared, the crises will continue. Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is—emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty. That, today, is where it is at, and will continue to be at for a long time to come. ….I’ve a vision of an angry continuing social crisis that no one really understands the depth of, let alone has solutions to. I see people like John and Sylvia living lost and alienated from the whole rational structure of civilized life, looking for solutions outside that structure, but finding none that are really satisfactory for long. And then I’ve a vision of Phædrus and his lone isolated abstractions in the laboratory...actually concerned with the same crisis but starting from another point, moving in the opposite direction...and what I’m trying to do here is put it all together. It’s so big...that’s why I seem to wander sometimes. “ ….(( The Narrator’s above “ a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself. And ….. Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world.. “.applies to the NEXT Photo” …. AND will also serve to illustrate (as mentioned in 3rd sentence above). how => “ John and Sylvia living lost and alienated from the whole rational structure of civilized life …. “.)} I-94 Rest Area 5 Miles West of Custer, MT. My navigation by “dead reckoning” and luck had returned me well enough to I-94, for food, and gas at Casper MT. Then driving here, I found a nice place to rest. While eating my “gas station burger,” I looked over the Yellowstone River Valley to the North, and read signs about local history. ….My map does not mark any reasonable non-interstate roads for the next 23 miles stretch between Custer, MT. and Nibbe, MT. Thus I was “forced to take the Interstate”. ….************ … A NOTE RE The /\ Above Photo of Local History Sign, Relates To US Military Treatment Of Native Americans: ….The town of Custer, MT, was named for General George Armstrong Custer, who died at the Battle of Little Big Horn. The battle site is named after the Big Horn River, which runs from the Wyoming Mountains to the Yellowstone River, Just East of Custer, MT. The Custer Battlefield Nat’l Monument is about 40 miles South of here. … Wikipedia Has Full Information & Many Contemporary Photos, Concerning The Battle of Little Big Horn. Click Here. *********************** (Photo = 105-0556 …… ZMM Page 102 ...... WayPt = 113w)