Trees And Open Grass Are Good Habitats For Partridges.
…."Phaeddrus’ Exploration … Which He 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 the 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 Below:
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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 passage, The ZMM Book Enthusiast, reading =>
…. “A partridge." … How do you know? … They rock back and forth like that when they fly … They stay close to the ground too. "
……. REMEMBERING THAT => THERE ARE NO USELESS WASTED WORDS IN ZMM, AND, Since A Partridge Is “A Bird, ” The ZMM Reader, Should Pause To Wonder If There Are Added Metaphorical Connections =>
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..A) In Chapter 14 two Chapters earlier, we saw the passage => …. “In the distance a single bird cries plaintively. , to be a Master Motif.
..B) And, we saw that, a similar ZMM Chapter 14 passage, in the Bozeman, MT, churchyard =:>. “A transparent-winged bug sets down … by Chris ...", also was a Master Motif.
..C) So, as is true for other similar MASTER MOTIFS, 1) The above lazy resting transparent wing bug, flexing wings, (is like unto), 2) The whole passage "A partridge."… Both of these (and many more), might be taken as telegrams => Foretelling That => Important Momentous Events Are Ahead!! …. Especially the whole partridge “ passage, which should be taken as => Foretell that imortan events, WILL take place in these Mountains, just ahead!
..E) AND Partridge. … >Is Surely A Foretelling!!! => Of Soon There WILL be = A Powerfu,l Unforgettable, Climatic Series of Philosophic Mountain Climb Events. AND these 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 bird passage => "A partridge." . might be taken as a telegram =>
…. Foreshadowing => 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, which In this case is =>
…. “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 Surly-=> A Fore-Announcing That Were Lodged 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 = NC4b Resize1000x1333.JPG ...... ZMM Page = 167 to 169 ...... WayPt = N+C 04b = 2.42 mi fm DeWeese.)