Part IV: The Illustrated "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Chapters 27 thru 32.  

Bond Chapel and Secluded Garden With Benches.

…View From In Front Of The University Of Chicago’s Cobb Hall Looking Southeast.


….“The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What’s really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat. Phædrus sees that he has thrown away a chance to integrate himself into the organization by submitting to whatever Aristotelian thing he is supposed to submit to. But that kind of opportunity seems hardly worth the bowing and scraping and intellectual prostration necessary to maintain it. It is a low-quality form of life.
…For him Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, ….
” (University of Chicago Cont Next)

In front of Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. The European Medieval Church Founded the First Universities. This is the reason many Universities, including the University of Chicago some 1,200 years later, preserve the tradition of Churchlike Gothic Buildings.
…This tradition is mirrored in this Chapel and other U of C building exteriors as shown in my photos. However, as my photos show, with one exception, there is nothing but 20th Century “smooth efficiency” done with electrical power & modern machinery in the interiors of these buildings.
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(Photo = 100-0095 ...... ZMM Page = 354 ...... WayPt = -034 0590 ft)


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