Part III: The Illustrated "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" Chapters 16 thru 26.  

Looking Over The Narrator’s Shade Trees, We See Up, Up, Up The West Canyon Wall =>
…. Here In the Shadow From the Late Afternoon Sun, Is Found A Small Partial Relief From The ZNN Narrator’s .“ Oppressed By The Fiery Heat.


….“Chris doesn’t even go over to see the river, something he’d normally do. Like me, he’s tired and content just to sit under the scant shade of these trees.
.... After a while he says there’s an old iron pump, it looks like, between us and the river. He points to it and I see what he means. He goes over and I can see him pump water onto his hand and then splash it onto his face. I go over and pump for him so he can use both hands. Then I do the same. The water feels cold on my hands and face. When done we walk to the cycle again and climb on and pull back on to the canyon road.
….. Now that solution. Throughout this Chautauqua so far this whole problem of technological ugliness has been looked at in a negative way. It’s been said that romantic attitudes toward Quality such as the Sutherlands have are, by themselves, hopeless. You can’t live on just groovy emotions alone. You have to work with the underlying form of the universe too, the laws of nature which, when understood, can make work easier, sickness rarer and famine almost absent. On the other hand, technology based on pure dualistic reason has also been condemned because it obtains these material advantages by turning the world into a stylized garbage dump. Now’s the time to stop condemning things and come up with some answers. ..
” (Cont. Next)

South End of Huge Parking Lot, Roadside Rest Area, Skookumchuck Recreation Site, Four Miles South Of White Bird, Salmon River Gorge, ID.

….When I was there June 30, 2002, I could find no evidence of any hand water pump. Perhaps it is incorporated into the two small buildings in the park, for which local groups may have a key.
….. (Better photos needed.)
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(Photo = 111-1144 ...... ZMM Page = 263 ...... ZMM Narrative WayPt = 286w ~1579ft)


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