Sunday, July 21, 2024: …A Panorama That Opens With A View Of The Burned Off Forested Hills, And Above This, The Smoke & Haze Of Current Forest Fires.
…Then Scrolling Right => The Smoke Intensifies, Becoming Almost Black, Fringed With Lower Brown Fring, As Also Unburned Forest Is Seen.
…Then Is Seen, The Highway That Got Us Up Here … Then A Yellow Sign Warning Of SEEP DOWN! … Then A Dirt Parking Area … Then Signs Re Dirt Side Road Access … Then Partial Views Of The Dirt Side Road Itself.

Dooley Mountain Pass, Fourteen Miles South of Baker City, OR.

…Without Forest Fires Around, And When Normally Passing Through the Cooler Air of Dooley Mountain Pass, We Would See Pleasant, Relaxing Forests!!

…About This, The ZMM Narrator Says =>
….“From Baker the cycle has taken us up through forests. The forest road takes us through a pass …. “

Under Normal Conditions Here, ZMM Author Robert Pirsig, The Narrator, and The Reader Can Take a Break From The Difficult “Dry” Gumptionology Lecture, To Mention & Enjoy The Scenery!
… Author Robert Pirsig writes the above ZMM Passage, after a long, difficult, detailed & “dry” lecture, during travel in hot, dry, low altitude Semi-Desert Sage Brush territory =>
…All of which are difficult for people, animals, & growing plant life Thus, it is a relief for => ZMM Author Robert Pirsig, and The Narrator, and The Reader => To “come up to” these quiet cooler forests, for a well-earned, relaxing, “scenery break”.
….In this case, as well as implied several more times ahead, the “Scenery breaks” coincide with travel, from lower hot dry semi-desert, and climb the road up onto a higher mountain pass, and into the more enjoyable cool forests.
….Sometimes these “scenery breaks” are for gasoline or lunch in a town. The ZMM Reader will see that => There are typically two and one half pages of Chautauqua between abrupt switch between The Chautauqua Discussion’s Main Topic and the Travel Narrative Scenery Breaks.

…SIDE NOTE: Here, As Is True For Practically Every Abrupt Switch Between The Chautauqua Discussion’s Main Topic And The Travel Narrative, In Above ZMM Passage, We See An Especially Good Example Of =>The "Metaphoric Bridge Connections" (MBC) between The Chautauqua Lecture Passages and the Travel Narrative Descriptions!!
… Of course these “Connections”, are nearly always there (Between 1) The Chautauqua Discussion’s Main Topic AND 2) The Travel Narrative), but this is an especially good illustration of this idea of "Metaphoric-Bridge-Connections".

You Can Read A Full Discussion Of => The Idea Of “Metaphoric Bridge Connections” =>
… Click Here For A ZMM Book Special Study WebPage. That Includes. “Metaphoric Bridge Connections” .. AFTER this page comes up, You Will See It Is HUGE! …. So, To Get Started > Do > Top > Edit > Find & Start Reading At => … FURTHER DISCUSSION: In His Book … Then Stop Reading When You Reach B) … .

Here Is A Link Where You Can Read At Length Henry Gurr’s Theory Re => 1) Analogy, 2) Metaphor, And 3) Simile.
… Click Here For A Study Of Analogy, Metaphors, And Metaphoric Bridge Connections (MBC), That Are Found In Robert Pirsig’s Book “Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance”. (ZMM) (1975).
AND, AFTER Above Blue Link Comes Up => At The Bottom Are Presented => Henry Gurr’s Explanation Of “How Out Mind Works” To Give Us Our Human Abilities Of => 1) Analogy, 2) Metaphor, And 3) Simile.

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