A Small Well Watered Green Shady Oasis In The Dry, Dry, Hot, Hot, Canyon.
….“ …. It’s the style that gets you; technological ugliness syruped over with romantic phoniness in an effort to produce beauty and profit by people who, though stylish, don’t know where to start because no one has ever told them there’s such a thing as Quality in this world and it’s real, not style. Quality isn’t something you lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas tree.
…. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects, the [seed] cone from which the tree must start.
.. To arrive at THIS Quality requires a somewhat different procedure from the "Step 1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions that accompany dualistic technology, and that’s what I’ll now try to go into.
.... After many turns in the canyon wall we stop for a break under a scrubby little patch of small trees and rocks. The grass around the trees is burned and brown and scattered with litter from picnickers. .. I collapse into some shade, …. ” (Cont. Next)
South End of Huge Parking Lot, Roadside Rest Area, Skookumchuck Recreation Site, Four Miles South Of White Bird, Salmon River Gorge, ID.
…. In this dry, sun-baked, otherwise treeless canyon, how do trees find water? TopoZone shows a small side canyon that comes into this Roadside Rest Area from the East (left). This may be the water source for the really nice, green, grassy park just beyond some buildings deep into these trees.
….In this otherwise beautiful canyon, the Narrator’s discussion of “technological ugliness “ is Metaphorically Mirrored in the supreme ugliness of “scattered with litter from picnickers“, which I am sure you can adequately visualize without a photo from me.
….This beauty/ugly contrast only serves to increase the Narrator’s depression and sadness.
NOTE: In ZMM passage above you see “THIS” in all caps, which duplicates emphasis in original ZMM text.
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(Photo = 111-1141cz2.0 ...... ZMM Page = 263 ...... ZMM Narrative WayPt = 285w 1579ft. TopoZone gives BM = 1502ft nearby.)
