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

The Continued Gradual Building of the Narrator’s Chautauqua, Until They Will Reach a Dramatic Climax!
….Correspondingly Chris Joyously Reaches The Top Of The Ridge. This Turns Out To Be The Highest Point in His Mountain Climb


.....[ “ …. Eventually he saw that Quality couldn’t be independently related with either the subject or the object but could be found only in the relationship of the two with each other. It is the point at which subject and object meet.
....That sounded warm.
....Quality is not a thing. It is an event.
....Warmer.
....It is the event at which the subject becomes aware of the object.
....And because without objects there can be no subject—because the objects create the subject’s awareness of himself—Quality is the event at which awareness of both subjects and objects is made possible.
....Hot. .
“ ]... …..
….“ Now he knew it was coming.
.....“ This means Quality is not just the result of a collision between subject and object. The very existence of subject and object themselves is deduced from the Quality event. The Quality event is the cause of the subjects and objects, which are then mistakenly presumed to be the cause of the Quality!
....Now he had that whole damned evil dilemma by the throat. The dilemma all the time had this unseen vile presumption in it, for which there was no logical justification, that Quality was the effect of subjects and objects. It was not! He brought out his knife.
...."The sun of quality," he wrote, "does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has created them. They are subordinate to it! .. And at that point, when he wrote that, he knew he had reached some kind of culmination of thought he had been unconsciously striving for over a long period of time.
.... "Blue sky!" shouts Chris.
.... There it is, way above us, a narrow patch of blue through the trunks of the trees.
.... We move faster and the patches of blue become larger and larger through the trees …. ."


Near Mountain Ridge Crest, Above Upper Fox Creek, Off Of Upper Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT.
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(Photo = September2006 0074 ...... ZMM Page = 215 ...... Photo simulate WayPt = N+C 23 9080ft = 9.25 mi fm DeWeese.)
NOTE: As previously mentioned => A complete field study is needed, to determine a good route from WayPt N+C 15, to N+C 23 & N+C 24. Thus the final decided "N+C Hypothetical Climb Trail”, may or may not use the Narrator’s “Double Back" included in => WayPt N+C 16 thru N+C 22.
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