Since I Don’t Have a Freeway Photo Here, I Hope You Will Accept This East View From the Freeway Overpass Bridge At One Of The Exits a Few Miles Back.

…Perhaps These Light Poles Were Some of the Freeway Lights the Narrator Mentions.

…“The freeway picks up strange reflections in the rain from oncoming lights across the median. The rain hits like pellets against the bubble, which refracts the lights in strange circular and then semicircular waves as they go by. Twentieth century. It’s all around us now, this twentieth century.” (Cont Next)

US-101 exit road toward McKinleyville, CA.
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All Around Us, It’s the. 20th Century:

Another View Of The Hospital Complex From A High Window of Cobb Hall.

…“[Twentieth century. It’s all around us now, this twentieth century.] Time to finish this twentieth-century odyssey of Phædrus and be done with it. .. The next time the class in Ideas and Methods 251, Rhetoric, met at the large round table in South Chicago, a department secretary announced that the Professor of Philosophy was ill. The following week he was still ill.” (University of Chicago Cont Next)

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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The Brick Building Ahead At Left Is The University of Chicago Bookstore Plus Coffee Shop.

…Phaedrus And Fellow Students Would Have Come From the Main Front Door Of Cobb Hall Into the Quad, Follow the Small Sidewalk, Pass Under the Tree, and Then Cross the Street to the Coffee Shop.

..The University of Chicago’s Hospital and Cobb Hall Are, Off Picture, Respectively At Left & Right. The Concrete Building Beyond The Bookstore At Left Of Center Is U of C’s Henry Hinds Laboratory.

…“[The following week he was still ill.] The following week he was still ill. The somewhat bewildered remnants of the class, which had dwindled to a third of its size, went on their own across the street for coffee.” (University of Chicago Cont Next)

Sidewalk, S. Ellis Ave, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. A place for coffee is indeed “across the street“ from the back of Phaedrus’s Classroom Building, Cobb Hall, at the immediate right of this photo. Remember the spatial relationships you see here. In the following photos, you will see closer views of the Hospital, Bookstore, Hinds Laboratory, and Cobb Hall.
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The University of Chicago Bookstore Features A Very Nice Coffee Shop.

…“At the coffee table a student whom Phædrus had marked as bright but intellectually snobbish said, "I consider this one of the most unpleasant classes I have ever been in." He seemed to look down on Phædrus with womanish peevishness as a spoiler of what should have been a nice experience.” (University of Chicago Cont Next)

Bookstore, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. So far as I could determine this would be the most likely accessible coffee place near Phaedrus’s Classroom that is just “across the street“.
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In October But Not November, These Trees Would Be Full Of Color.

…West View of Chicago Exposition Mall Intersection

…Notice Watchful Guard At SW Corner of Series Of Buildings Adjoining Cobb Hall.

…“After discussion about their class, everyone at the coffee table fell silent when they learned that Phaedrus taught Rhetoric! ” [The Narrator continues:] “November wore on. The leaves, which had turned a beautiful sunlit orange in October, fell from the trees, leaving barren branches to meet the cold winds from the north. A first snow fell, then melted, and a drab city waited for winter to come. .. In the Professor of Philosophy’s absence, another Platonic dialogue had been assigned. Its title was Phædrus, which meant nothing to our Phædrus since he didn’t call himself by that name.” (University of Chicago Cont Next)

Midway Plaisance, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. The Hospital, Bookstore, Hinds Laboratory, and Cobb Hall are one block to the right.

NOTE: The Narrators => “The leaves … fell from the trees, leaving barren branches presents a “bare” feeling that (Metaphoric Bridge Connection) corresponds to the Narrator’s continued => “the Professor of Philosophy’s absence,.

…P.S. Although the Guard had a right to ask me why I was taking so many photos, he never approached or indicated a problem. This is the last time I noticed him as I took the remainder of my University of Chicago photos.
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Entrance To The University Of Chicago Bookstore And Coffee Shop.

…[The Narrator, having completed a one page introduction to Socrates dialogue “Phaedrus”, continues:] “The next week, in the University of Chicago bookstore across the street from where he is about to attend class, Phædrus sees … ” (University of Chicago Cont Next)

Bookstore, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. The University of Chicago Bookstore is indeed “across the street.“
…EXPLANATION: As I took the /\ Abpve /\ Photo, the back of Cobb Hall (Phaedrus’s Classroom Building and the building from which is I took all my pictures of “grungy” windows) was behind me to my right. The Hospital Buildings and the Dark Round Sculpture were to my left behind me.
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A General View Inside The University of Chicago Bookstore.

…“ …. [Phædrus sees] two dark eyes that stare at him steadily through a shelf of books. When the face appears he recognizes it as the face of the innocent student who had been verbally beaten up earlier in the quarter and had disappeared. The face looks as though the student knows something Phædrus doesn’t know. Phædrus walks over to talk, but the face retreats and goes out the door, leaving Phædrus puzzled. And on edge. Perhaps he’s just fatigued and jumpy. The exhaustion of teaching at Navy Pier on top of the effort to outflank the whole body of Western academic thought at the University of Chicago is forcing him to work and study twenty hours a day with inadequate attention to food or exercise. It could be just fatigue that makes him think something is odd about that face. ” (University of Chicago Cont Next)

Bookstore, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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A Closer View Of Cobb Hall From the Wide Plaza In Front of The Adjacent Hospital.

…“But when he walks across the street to the class, …. ” (University of Chicago Cont Next)

Near the corner where E. 58th Street ends at S. Ells Ave, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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The Small Sidewalk Seen At The Base Ot The Tree, Goes Between Another Building and Cobb Hall Seen At Right.

…As Stated in a Previous Caption, this Sidewalk Leads to the Central Quad.

…On His Return Trip(s) From The Bookstore, Phaedrus Most Likely Would Have Used This Sidewalk, Via the Quad, To the Front Entrance Of Cobb Hall

…“ … [But when he walks across the street to the class,] the face follows about twenty paces behind. Something is up. ” (University of Chicago Cont Next)

Sidewalk along S. Ellis Ave, at rear of Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Cobb Hall is indeed, just “across the street“ from the U. Chicago Bookstore. It is the part of the building seen at the right in this photo. All this is in keeping with thecontinuing factual accuracy and realism of Author Robert Pirsig’s book!!
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Stairway Doors Leading To Classrooms of Cobb Hall.

…“[Something is up.] Phædrus enters the classroom and waits. Soon, there comes the student again, back into the room after all these weeks. He can’t expect to get credit now. The student looks at Phædrus with a half-smile. He’s smiling at something, all right. .. At the doorway there are some footsteps, and then Phædrus suddenly knows—and his legs turn rubbery and his hands start to shake. Smiling benignly in the doorway, stands none other than the Chairman for the Committee on Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods at the University of Chicago. He is taking over the class. . .. This is it. This is where they throw Phædrus out the front door.“

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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Here Try To Visualize Phaedrus With “His Hand, Palm Flat Out, Elbow On the Table.“

…The Narrator, introduces us to the Chairman, says how the Chairman will discredit Phaedrus, and then continues => ]
…..“Courtly, grand, with imperial magnanimity …., lays his coat down carefully, takes a chair on the opposite side of the large round table, sits, and then brings out an old pipe and stuffs it for what must be nearly a half a minute. … studies faces with a smiling hypnotic gaze, sensing the mood, but feeling it is not just right.“
…[We now hear, how Phaedrus thinks the Chairman’s will get rid of him, and how this will be done in the context of the]
…“finest in all the Dialogues of Plato“ [The Chairman, with reference to Phaedrus, will be “ … baiting him a little, provoking him to attack.“.
… [Phaedrus, who has practically memorized the Dialog, suddenly realizes how Socrates ’s questions (written by Plato) serve only to discredit the Sophists. The Narrator finishes with:]
…“ … the Chairman has completely bypassed Socrates’ description of the One and has jumped ahead to the allegory of the chariot and the horses. ....
.. TRAP! He’s using the dialogue to prove the holiness of reason! Once that’s established he can move down into enquiries of what reason is, and then, lo and behold, there we are in Aristotle’s domain again!
…Phædrus raises his hand, palm flat out, elbow on the table. Where before this hand was shaking, it is now deadly calm. Phædrus senses that he now is formally signing his own death warrant here, but knows he will sign another kind of death warrant if he takes his hand down. ” (University of Chicago Cont Next)

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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The Allegory of the Chariot Pulled By Two Winged Horses, One Mortal And The Other Immortal.

…”In the “Phaedrus”, A Dialogue by Plato (through his mouthpiece, Socrates) shares the allegory of the chariot to explain the tripartite nature of the human soul or psyche.”

…”The mortal horse is black deformed and obstinate. Plato describes the horse as a “crooked lumbering animal, put together anyhow…of a dark color, with grey eyes and blood-red complexion; the mate of insolence and pride, shag-eared and deaf, hardly yielding to whip and spur.”

…”The immortal horse, on the other hand, is white noble and game, “upright and cleanly made…his color is white, and his eyes dark; he is a lover of honor and modesty and temperance, and the follower of true glory; he needs no touch of the whip, but is guided by word and admonition only.”

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…In the previous photo, the Narrator has said => [“finest in all the Dialogues of Plato.“ }
…[“ … the Chairman has completely bypassed Socrates’ description of the One and has
jumped ahead to the allegory of the chariot and the horses. ....
.. TRAP! He’s using the dialogue to prove the holiness of reason! Once that’s established he can move down into enquiries of what reason is, and then, lo and behold, there we are in Aristotle’s domain again! ]
… “ [Phædrus raises his hand, palm flat out, elbow on the table. Where before this hand was shaking, it is now deadly calm. ]
…The Chairman sees the hand, is surprised and disturbed by it, but acknowledges it. Then the message is delivered.
...Phædrus says, "All this [Socrates’ (Allegory) description of the One] is just an analogy."
...Silence. And then confusion appears on the Chairman’s face. "What?" he says. The spell of his performance is broken.
..."This entire description of the chariot and horses is just an analogy." (traditionally transcribed as allegory)
..."What?" he says again, then loudly, "It is the truth! Socrates has sworn to the Gods that it is the truth!"
...Phædrus replies, "Socrates himself says it is an analogy."
..."If you will read the dialogue you will find that Socrates specifically states it is the Truth!"
..."Yes, but prior to that . . . in, I believe, two paragraphs . . . he has stated that it is an analogy."
...The text is on the table to consult but the Chairman has enough sense not to consult it. If he does and Phædrus is right, his classroom face is completely demolished. He has told the class no one has read the book thoroughly.
...Rhetoric, 1; Dialectic, 0.
...Fantastic, Phædrus thinks, that he should have remembered that. It just demolishes the whole dialectical position. That may just be the whole show right there. Of course it’s an analogy. Everything is an analogy. But the dialecticians don’t know that. That’s why the Chairman missed that statement of Socrates. Phædrus has caught it and remembered it, because if Socrates hadn’t stated it he wouldn’t have been telling the "Truth." ” …

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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“The Stanza Della Segnatura Is One Of The Rooms At The Catholic Church’s Vatican Apostolic Palace” In Rome.

… The “Decorations Are Frescos By Raphael”, And “Depict Distinct Branches Of Knowledge”.

… “Evidence Suggests This Room Is Among The First InThis Building To Be Decorated.”
…[The first fresco to be done is unmentioned.] “The second painting [a fresco] to be finished (at left) was La Disputa representing Theology. And the third painting to be finished (at right) is The School of Athens, representing philosophy.”
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…The noteworthy persons in this “Philosophy” Fresco will be identified in the NEXT Photo, where you will learn that => Left of center, Socrates is the dark bearded half bald man in brown robe looking and gesturing to a woman in Blue.
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… “ [Rhetoric, 1; Dialectic, 0.
...Fantastic, Phædrus thinks, that he should have remembered that. It just demolishes the whole dialectical position. That may just be the whole show right there. Of course it’s an analogy. Everything is an analogy. But the dialecticians don’t know that. That’s why the Chairman missed that statement of Socrates. Phædrus has caught it and remembered it, because if Socrates hadn’t stated it he wouldn’t have been telling the "Truth." ] ” …
“No one sees it yet, but they will soon enough. The Chairman of the Committee on Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods has just been shot down in his own classroom.
...Now he is speechless. He can’t think of a word to say. The silence which so built his image at the beginning of the class is now destroying it. He doesn’t understand from where the shot has come. He has never confronted a living Sophist. Only dead ones.
...Now he tries to grasp onto something, but there is nothing to grasp onto. His own momentum carries him forward into the abyss, and when he finally finds words they are the words of another kind of person; a schoolboy who has forgotten his lesson, has gotten it wrong, but would like our indulgence anyway.
...He tries to bluff the class with the statement he made before that no one has studied very well, but the student to Phædrus’ right shakes his head at him. Obviously someone has.
...The Chairman falters and hesitates, acts afraid of his class and does not really engage them. Phædrus wonders what the consequences of this will be. .
...Then he sees a bad thing happen. The beat-up innocent student who has watched him earlier now is no longer so innocent. He is sneering at the Chairman and asking him sarcastic and insinuating questions. The Chairman, already crippled, is now being killed . . . but then Phædrus realizes this was what was intended for himself. ” …

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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“The School Of Athens Is One Of A Group Of Four Main Frescoes On The Walls Of The Stanza Della Segnatura Room, That Depict Distinct Branches Of Knowledge.”

… Although This Fresco By Raphael Is Traditionally Known As “The School Of Athens”, It Really Should Simply Be “Philosophy”, As Is Stated Above The Arch In The Fresco Itself:
… “Each Branch of knowledge is identified above by a separate tondo containing a majestic female figure seated in the clouds, with putti bearing the phrases: "Seek Knowledge of Causes", "Divine Inspiration", "Knowledge of Things Divine" (Disputa), "To Each What Is Due". “
…”Accordingly, the figures on the walls below exemplify philosophy, poetry (including music), theology, and justice.[4][5] The traditional title is not Raphael's. The subject of the painting is actually philosophy, or at least ancient Greek philosophy, and its overhead tondo-label, "Causarum Cognitio", tells us what kind, as it appears to echo Aristotle's emphasis on wisdom as knowing why, hence knowing the causes, in Metaphysics Book I and Physics Book II. Indeed, Plato and Aristotle appear to be the central figures in the scene.”
…”At center are the older Philosopher Plato pointing to Heaven, and the younger Philosopher Aristotle pointing down to Earth.” [To the left of center, Socrates is the dark bearded half bald man in brown robe looking and gesturing to a woman in Blue.]
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… “He can’t feel sorry, just disgusted. When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.
...A girl rescues the Chairman by asking easy questions. He receives the questions with gratitude, answers each at great length and slowly recovers himself.
...Then the question is asked him, "What is dialectic?"
...He thinks about it, and then, by God, turns to Phædrus and asks if he would care to answer.
..."You mean my personal opinion?" Phædrus asks.
..."No . . . let us say, Aristotle’s opinion."
...No subtleties now. He is just going to get Phædrus on his own territory and let him have it.
..."As best I know . . . " Phædrus says, and pauses.
..."Yes?" The Chairman is all smiles. Everything is all set.
..."As best I know, Aristotle’s opinion is that dialectic comes before everything else."
...The Chairman’s expression goes from unction to shock to rage in one-half second flat. It does! his face shouts, but he never says it. The trapper trapped again. He can’t kill Phædrus on a statement taken from his own article in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
...Rhetoric, 2; Dialectic, ” …

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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In Raphael’s Fresco, “The School Of Athens”, An Elder Plato Walks Alongside A Younger Aristotle.

…A Close Up View Of The Two Ancient Greek Philosophers Shown At The Center Of The Fresco By Italian Renaissance Artist Raphael.

…This Is A Close Up View Of The Central Part Of The Image Shown In PREVIOUS Photo.
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[The ZMM Narrator then tells us how Phaedrus then proceeds to give The rest of “Aristotle’s Opinion”. => ]
… "And from the dialectic come the forms," Phædrus continues, "and from. . . . " But the Chairman cuts it off. He sees it cannot go his way and dismisses it.
...He shouldn’t have cut it off, Phædrus thinks to himself. Were he a real Truth-seeker and not a propagandist for a particular point of view he would not. He might learn something. Once it’s stated that "the dialectic comes before anything else," this statement itself becomes a dialectical entity, subject to dialectical question.
...Phædrus would have asked, What evidence do we have that the dialectical question-and-answer method of arriving at truth comes before anything else? We have none whatsoever. And when the statement is isolated and itself subject to scrutiny it becomes patently ridiculous. Here is this dialectic, like Newton’s law of gravity, just sitting by itself in the middle of nowhere, giving birth to the universe, hey? It’s asinine.
...Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient Greece. That is so historically, and that is so by any application of common sense. The poetry and the myths are the response of a prehistoric people to the universe around them made on the basis of Quality. It is Quality, not dialectic, which is the generator of everything we know.
...The class ends, the Chairman stands by the door answering questions, and Phædrus almost goes up to say something but does not. A lifetime of blows tends to make a person unenthusiastic about any unnecessary interchange that might lead to more. Nothing friendly has been said or even hinted at and much hostility has been shown. ” …

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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Phaedrus, Walking To His Apartment, Might Have Followed This Street.

…[The deadly contest, with score card provided, between Phaedrus and the Chairman is told in two pages. Phaedrus wins, but as the class departs, he realizes he has no future in Chicago:]
…“[Nothing friendly has been said or even hinted at and much hostility has been shown.]
.. Phædrus the wolf. It fits. Walking back to his apartment with light steps he sees it fits more and more. He wouldn’t be happy if they were overjoyed with the thesis. Hostility is really his element. It really is. Phædrus the wolf, yes, down from the mountains to prey upon the poor innocent citizens of this intellectual community. It fits all right. ” (University of Chicago Cont Next)
Photo at front of U of C’s Henry Hinds Laboratory, S. Ellis Ave, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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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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Gothic Archway Into a Service Area of the U of C’s Hospital Complex.
[In the previous two pages, the Narrator put closure on Phaedrus’s last days at U. Chicago and what is happened with his University of Illinois, Rhetoric classed at the Navy Pier. We are told how Phaedrus gets less and less sleep. His mind gets slower and slower.] “The city closes in on him now, and in his strange perspective it becomes the antithesis of what he believes. The citadel not of Quality, the citadel of form and substance. Substance in the form of steel sheets and girders, substance in the form of concrete piers and roads, in the form of brick, of asphalt, of auto parts, old radios, and rails, dead carcasses of animals that once grazed the prairies. Form and substance without Quality. That is the soul of this place. Blind, huge, sinister and inhuman: seen by the light of fire flaring upward in the night from the blast furnaces in the south, through heavy coal smoke deeper and denser into …. “(U.Chicago Cont.Next)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. As mentioned in an earlier caption (photo 0081), these ribbed and vaulted high-gothic arches declare the Medieval Church Academic Origins of The University of Chicago! Above this arch are the Sheltered Platforms for the Saints, shown previously.
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