Windswept Shrubs, Trees, And Beautiful Vistas, But Chris And The Narrator Are Not Able To Enjoy It!
…[The Narrator and Chris have just arrived at the Pacific Ocean Coast, where the weather has suddenly turned very foggy and cold. It’s so cold, the Narrator has to put on a coat and he wants Chris to do likewise. The Narrator's one page discussion of their resulting contest of wills ends with:]
…“He looks down at the ground bitterly, and puts his warm clothes on. Then we’re back on the machine and moving down the coast again.
…I can imitate the father he’s supposed to have, but subconsciously, at the Quality level, he sees through it and knows his real father isn’t here. In all this Chautauqua talk there’s been more than a touch of hypocrisy. Advice is given again and again to eliminate subject-object duality, when the biggest duality of all, the duality between me and him, remains unfaced. A mind divided against itself. ” (Cont Next)
One mile North of Rockport, CA. In the ZMM passage above, the chilled, wet, foggy, cold of the weather, corresponds (Metaphoric Bridge Connection), to the continuing chilling of the relationship between the Narrator & Chris.
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(Photo = 116-1691 + 116-1692sc ...... ZMM Page = 363 ...... WayPt = 457w 0120ft)