Out The Smudged & Ivy Covered Windows, You Can Make Out the Darker Entrance Area For The University of Chicago Hospital. Also Seen Are Sidewalks, Lawn, and Sitting Benches. Phaedrus’ Classroom Possibility Number Two.

“In the next sessions the shamed student is no longer present. No surprise. The class is completely frozen, as is inevitable when an incident like that has taken place. Each session, just one person does all the talking, the Professor of Philosophy, and he talks and talks and talks to faces that have turned into masks of neutrality. .. The Professor of Philosophy seems quite aware of what has happened. His previous little eye-flick of malice toward Phædrus has turned to a little eye-flick of fear. He seems to understand that within the present classroom situation, when the time comes, he can get exactly the same treatment he gave, and there will be no sympathy from any of the faces before him. He’s thrown away his right to courtesy. There’s no way to prevent retaliation now except to keep covered. . But to keep covered he must work hard, and say things exactly right. Phædrus understands this too. By remaining silent he can now learn under what are very advantageous circumstances.“

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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Summertime at The University of Chicago Hospital Medical Center.

…This View Through A Cobb Hall Classroom Glass Window, Is What Phaedrus Might Have Seen From His Classroom In September or Early October.

[The Narrator covers Phaedrus’ Pre-judged Mode of Study, then continues:] “Aristotle fouled up what Phædrus wanted to say by placing rhetoric in an outrageously minor category in his hierarchic order of things. It was a branch of Practical Science, a kind of shirttail relation to the other category, Theoretical Science, which Aristotle was mainly involved in. As a branch of Practical Science it was isolated from any concern with Truth or Good or Beauty, except as devices to throw into an argument. Thus Quality, in Aristotle’s system, is totally divorced from rhetoric. This contempt for rhetoric, combined with Aristotle’s own atrocious quality of rhetoric, so completely alienated Phædrus he couldn’t read anything Aristotle said without seeking ways to despise it and attack it.” (U. Chicago Cont. Next)

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

In the /\ Above Photo => The dark object looks like a Sculptured Sphere. But later photos show the hospital and you will see this is a Disk Shaped Sculpture.
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Another View of the Hospital Through The Grimy Windows Of A Cobb Lecture Hall Classroom.

…[The Narrator covers Phaedrus’ discovery of why the dialectic is so important to the Philosophy Professor, and the key fact that it is a “fulcrum word.” Then continues:]
…“Phædrus guessed that Aristotle’s diminution of dialectic, from Plato’s sole method of arriving at truth to a "counterpart of rhetoric," might be as infuriating to modern Platonists as it would have been to Plato. Since the Professor of Philosophy didn’t know what Phædrus’ "position" was, this was what was making him edgy. He might be afraid that Phædrus the Platonist was going to jump him. If so, he certainly had nothing to worry about. Phædrus wasn’t insulted that dialectic had been brought down to the level of rhetoric. He was outraged that rhetoric had been brought down to the level of dialectic. Such was the confusion at the time. .. The person to clear all this up, of course, was Plato, and fortunately he was the next to appear at the round table with the crack running across the middle in the dim dreary room across from the hospital building in South Chicago.” (U. Chicago. Cont .Next)

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2024: …A Panorama View Of The Pacific Ocean Beach, And Adjacent Parking Lot, Just South Of Crescent City.

The ZMM Narrator Says =>
….”We follow the coast now, cold, wet and depressed. The rain has let up, temporarily, but the sky shows no hope. At one point I see a beach … ”

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A Close-Up View Of The Flowers, Seen At The Right End Of Previous Panorama Photo.

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Wonderful Flowers, As Henry Walks Further Toward The Beach.

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A Few Feet From Previous Photo, More Flowers Seen Among The Shrubs, Along Inland Side Of Beach.

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Driving South On California Coast Highway, US-101, 25 minutes later,
…David Matos & Henry Gurr, Stop To Look For Photogenic Views Of The Ocean,
……But Only Find Shrubs & A Few Flowers.

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Tuesday, July 23, 2024: …Continued Driving South On California Coast Highway, US-101,
…11 minutes later, David Matos & Henry Gurr, Stop To Look For Photogenic Views Of The Ocean,
…..But Only Find More Shrubs & A Few Strange Flowers.

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A Close-Up View Of The Flowers Seen In Previous Photo.

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A Few Feet From Previous Panorama, More Flowers Seen Among The Shrubs.

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A Few Feet From Previous Photo, Yellow Flowers Are Seen Among The Shrubs.
…And Above The Yellow Flowers, Further Back, Red Flowers.

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David Matos Continus Driving South On California Coast Highway, US-101,
…5 minutes later, Henry Gurr’s Camera Catches Typical Shrubs At The Edge Of The Road.

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A Fairly Misty, Foggy Day At the Coast, But Not As Bad As Described By the Narrator.

…“We follow the coast now, cold, wet and depressed. The rain has let up, temporarily, but the sky shows no hope. At one point I see a beach and some people walking on it in the wet sand. I’m tired and so I stop. .. As he gets off, Chris says, "What are we stopping for?" .. "I’m tired," I say.” (Cont. Next)

Three miles South of Orick, CA. Here we get a typical sample of California Cold, Depressing, Dreary, Dismal, Drizzly Fog. For me, this lasted for several hours until the sun finally burned it off. However, for Chris and the Narrator, the rain and cold never let up all day and part of the next. *************************

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Here The Mountain Slopes Down To The Beach.

…“The wind blows cold off the ocean and where it has formed dunes, now wet and dark from the rain that must just have ended here, I find a place to lie down, and this makes me a little warmer. .. I don’t sleep though. A little girl appears over the top of the dune looking as though she wants me to come and play. After a while she goes away. .. In time Chris comes back and wants to go. He says he has found some funny plants out on the rocks that have feelers which pull in when you touch them. ” (Cont. Next)
Five miles South of Orick, CA. The ZMM Reader should come to attention when seeing the Narrator’s seeming useless words => A little girl appears over the top of the dune looking as though she wants me to come and play. After a while she goes away.”
…But this inserted phrase, has an important meaning similar to the Narrator’s 1) “A small bird rises from a tree in front of us. ” or 2) “ Except for that and the chirping of some little bird there’s no sound.”
...These 3phrases are Author Robert Pirsig’s way of telling us, that he as author knows that the Narrator’s treatment of Chris is very deficient.
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California Coast: The Low Tide Exposes Rocks and Myriads of Water Creatures.

…“[In time Chris comes back and wants to go. He says he has found some funny plants out on the rocks that have feelers which pull in when you touch them.] I go with him and see between rises of waves on the rocks that they are sea anemones, which are not plants but animals. I tell him the tentacles can paralyze small fish. The tide must be all the way out or we wouldn’t see these, I say. From the corner of my eye I see the little girl on the other side of the rocks has picked up a starfish. Her parents are carrying some starfish too.” (Cont .Next)“

Five miles South of Orick, CA. I did not find any exposed rocks along the ocean edge, in areas consistent with the ZMM Narrative, so the /\ Above /\ Photo shows what is seen at the rightly famed half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco.
…In the previous photo it said => These 3 phrases are Author Robert Pirsig’s way of telling us, that he as author knows that the Narrator’s treatment of Chris is very deficient. … But in ZMM phrase above, the Narrator, despite not getting any rest, decides to go with Chris to see the “ sea anemones”. And approvingly continues with “ Her parents are carrying some starfish too.”
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After Leaving The Beach, The Road Goes By Flowers And A Curve In the Road Turns South.

…“We get on the motorcycle and move south. Sometimes the rain gets heavy and I snap on the bubble so it doesn’t sting my face, but I don’t like this and take it off when the rain dies away. We should reach Arcata before dark but I don’t want to go too fast on this wet road.” (Cont. Next)

Six miles South of Orick, CA. In Addition, the ZMM Narrator doesn’t want to go too fast, Metaphoric Bridge Connection, on his discussion of Phaedrus’s final days in Chicago.
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Two Symbolic Golden California Bears, Plato and Aristotle, Greet the Traveler as They Cross This Bridge!

“I think it was Coleridge who said everyone is either a Platonist or an Aristotelian. People who can’t stand Aristotle’s endless specificity of detail are natural lovers of Plato’s soaring generalities. People who can’t stand the eternal lofty idealism of Plato welcome the down-to-earth facts of Aristotle.” (Cont. Next)

US-101 crossing the Klamath River, near Klamath CA.
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