Trees and Open Grass Are Good Habitats for Partridges.
…."An Exploration Which Phaedrus Saw As The Mountains Of The Spirit."
…. “ I want to talk now about Phædrus’ exploration into the meaning of the term Quality, an exploration which he saw as a route through the mountains of the spirit. As best I can puzzle it out, there were two distinct phases.
…. In the first phase he made no attempt at a rigid, systematic definition of what he was talking about. This was a happy, fulfilling and creative phase. It lasted most of the time he taught at the school back in the valley behind us.
… The second phase emerged as a result of normal intellectual criticism of his lack of definition of what he was talking about. In this phase he made systematic, rigid statements about what Quality is, and worked out an enormous hierarchic structure of thought to support them. He literally had to move heaven and earth to arrive at this systematic understanding and when he was done felt he’d achieved an explanation of existence and our consciousness of it better than any that had existed before.
....If it was truly a new route over the mountain it’s certainly a needed one. [After a page explaining need to repair centuries of "Philosophical Erosion" the Narrator hears a sound.]
…. A whirr sounds and a partridge disappears through the trees. . "Did you see it?" says Chris. .. "Yes," I say back. .. "What was it?" . "A partridge." .. "How do you know?" .. "They rock back and forth like that when they fly," I say. I’m not sure of this but it sounds right. "They stay close to the ground too." .. “ Is the partridge a metaphor for "spirit" ? Or are there other metaphorical connections to “bird” ? As discussed next =>
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Beside Cottonwood Creek, Upper Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT.
DATE-LINE: May 12, 2021. by Henry Gurr.
….MYSTICAL, POSSIBLY SPIRITUAL FORCES, RELATED TO THE NARRATOR’S "A partridge." .
…. From the above, The ZMM Book Enthusiast, reading =>
…. “"They rock back and forth like that when they fly," "They stay close to the ground too." .
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……. Since a Partridge is a Bird, the ZMM reader, should pause to wonder if there are added Metaphorical Connections =>
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..A) Is This Like The Master Motif? => …. “In the distance a single bird cries plaintively.
..B) Or similar to ZMM Chapter 14, in the Bozeman, MT, church yard, . “A transparent-winged bug sets down … by Chris ..." =>
..C) In the case of the above lazy resting bug, flexing wings, (Like other similar MOTIFS), this passage "A partridge" might be taken as a telegram => Foretelling That => Important Momentous Events, in these Mountains, are just ahead!
..E) AND Is This A Foretelling? => Of Soon There Will be = A The Powerful Unforgettable Climatic Series of Philosophic Mountain Climb Events, are about to Happen In this case leading up to Chris shouts =>…..Blue Sky!
..F) Where we will see that the Narrator Concludes =>
…..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.
SUMMARY:
….The above => "A partridge." . might be taken as a telegram =>
…. Foretelling that => Important Momentous Events are just ahead!
Is this such a Telegram? Is This Again, Author Pirsig’s method, to alert the reader => That There Soon Will be => A, Powerful Unforgettable Series of Events, In this case =>
…. ” 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!
All This Is Possibly-=> A Fore-Announcing In => Several Innocent Looking Partridge Sentences.
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….If You Are Aware Of Other Similar Examples, Please Send Email To HenryG__USCA.edu
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(Photo = Septenber2006 0144 ...... ZMM Page = 167 to 169 ...... Photo simulate WayPt = N+C 05 = 2.23 mi fm DeWeese.)
