Looking Down, Way, Way Down, We See Tiny Trees by the Water’s Edge. What a View!!

…“Quality is what you see out of the corner of your eye, and so I look at the lake below but feel the peculiar quality from the chill, almost frigid sunlight behind me, and the almost motionless wind.“ (Cont. Next)

Crater Lake National Park, OR. Also, for me, there was no noticeable wind. Although it was hot in the direct sun, the cool air made a very pleasant day. *************************

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Another View of the Fantastic Pure Blue at Crater Lake! What a View!!
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….[“You point to something as having Quality and the Quality tends to go away.”] “Quality is what you see out of the corner of your eye, and so I look at the lake below but feel the peculiar quality from the chill, almost frigid sunlight behind me, and the almost motionless wind.” (Cont. Next Photo)

Crater Lake National Park, OR. (Click picture to get a largest view, and use Click&Drag Bars Bottom & Right to see parts off scree.)
…. The Narrator continues to Metaphorically use the real physical "fakey" feeling of Crater Lake, stillness & chilled almost motionless wind, to amplify what more he tells us about Quality in experience. …. “You point to something as having Quality and the Quality tends to go away. “

For A Great Aerial View Of Crater Lake, Looking In Same Direction As /\ Above /\ View, Click Here.
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A View Of The Steep Slope & Volcanic Rock, Left After The Gigantic Humongous Explosion That Created This Incredible Crater AND Lake!
…. “You point to something as having Quality and the Quality tends to go away. Quality is what you see out of the corner of your eye, and so I look at the lake below but feel the peculiar quality from the chill, almost frigid sunlight behind me, and the almost motionless wind. “

Mount Mazama Is A Complex Volcano In The Western U.S. State Of Oregon, In A Segment Of The Cascade Volcanic Arc And Cascade Range. Its Gigantic Explosion 7700 Years Ago Exp. Formed A Caldera That Holds Crater Lake.
… Mount Mazama originally had an elevation of approximately 12,000 feet (3,700 m), but following its climactic eruption this was reduced to 8,157 feet (2,486 m).
..Crater Lake is 1,943 feet (592 m) deep, the deepest freshwater body in the U.S. and the second deepest in North America after Great Slave Lake in Canada.
…Mount Mazama formed as a group of overlapping volcanic edifices, becoming active intermittently until its climactic eruption 7,700 years ago.
…This eruption, the largest known within the Cascade Volcanic Arc in a million years, destroyed Mazama's summit, reducing its approximate 12,000-foot (3,700 m) height by about 1 mile (1,600 m).
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Native Americans have inhabited the area around Mazama and Crater Lake for at least 10,000 years and the volcano plays an important role in local folklore.
…The Klamath Native Americans of the area believed that Mount Mazama was inhabited by Llao, their "Chief of the Below World."[103] After the mountain destroyed itself the Klamaths recounted the events as a great battle between Llao and his rival Skell, their sky god,[104] or "Chief of the Above World."[103] The narrative has several slightly different iterations. A common variant of the legend recounts that Llao saw a beautiful Klamath woman, the daughter of a chief, and became angry when she refused his offer of immortality if she would be his consort. Furious, Llao emerged from Mazama and threw fire upon the people beneath the mountain, and Skell stood on Mount Shasta, trying to defend the people against Llao's fury. As the earth shook and volcanic rock fell from the sky, two holy men sacrificed themselves to Mount Mazama's crater, and Skell was able to force Llao back into the volcano, which then collapsed on top of him;[103] other accounts tell that Skell smashed the peak on top of Llao.[105] Torrential rain followed, filling in the hole left by Mazama's collapse to form Crater Lake.[103]
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Above From Wikipedia. For Complete Article, Including A Really Great Aerial View, Click Here.
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To view Henry Gurr’s 3 Panorama Photos Of Crater Lake => Click Here, And AFTER This Gallery Page Comes Up, .ClickOn & View The 4th, 5tth, &6th Panorama Small Images.
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Another Cathedral of Trees On the Way Down To The South.

…“We wind down out of the park to the south. .. “ (Cont. Next)

Crater Lake National Park, OR. Because I have not, yet, completely adjusted myself to the quality/value standards of the Narrator, I really enjoyed my 6 hours within the park. As a measure of how thrilled I was, I ended up taking 50 photos in Crater Lake Park.

…On An Earlier Trip This Way =>
…I well remember my trip to Crater Lake in February of 1989. My son and I almost did not make it up there. On the road up, there was a considerable amount of hard packed snow, topped with a coating of new slippery snow. My van wheels slipped so badly on the hard packed snow & ice, I almost could not go forward!
…When we got to the crater, I remember the landscape was covered with deep snow and the visitor center was surrounded by huge mounds pushed off the parking lot pavement. While there, we experienced very dark, cloudy, stormy skies with cold blustery wind. Everything was white with the snow, including the frozen lake and the surrounding crater walls.
…Our windy cold winter scene was a real disappointment, and can’t possibly compare to the summertime beauty of the blue, blue lake, contrasting with surrounding mountains and green trees. Even the high altitude, pure deep black-blue sky is part of the Summer thrill.
…Although stormy high altitude,Winter at Crater Lake was bitterly cold, it was beastly hot as soon as we reached lower elevations and back into the bright desert sun - especially Klamath Lake in midafternoon.
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A View Looking West At the Medieval Towers of The University of Chicago’s Cobb Lecture Hall. This Is One of Main Classroom Buildings for the University.

…The Renaissance Center is On the Fifth and Top Floor Seen Here.

…The ZMM Narrator Now Returns to Phaedrus’s Story at the University of Chicago.
….“The leaders of the revolt were Robert Maynard Hutchins, who had become president of the University of Chicago; Mortimer Adler, whose work on the psychological background of the law of evidence was somewhat similar to work being done at Yale by Hutchins; Scott Buchanan, a philosopher and mathematician; and most important of all for Phædrus, the present chairman of the committee, who was then a Columbia University Spinozist and medievalist.“ (U. Chicago Cont. Next)

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Cobb Lecture Hall is on the West end of University of Chicago’s Central Quadrangle.
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The ZMM Narrator Continues Phaedrus’s Story At The University of Chicago.

… “I said the assistant chairman for the Committee on Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods was shocked. What he was so shocked about was that Phædrus didn’t know he was at the locus of what is probably the most famous academic controversy of the century, what a California university president described as the last attempt in history to change the course of an entire university. .. Phædrus’ reading turned up a brief history of that famous revolt against empirical education that had taken place in the early thirties. “[At U. Chicago] “The Committee on Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods was a vestige of that attempt.” (U. Chicago Cont. Next)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

..A) After You Click Blue Link Below => A Google Satellite View Will Come Up Showing U. Chicago, And The Surrounding City, Plus Showing The Adjacent “Museum of Science and Industry” This Science & Industry Museum happens to be located on part of The Old Grounds of the 1893 Chicago Worlds’ Fair, at the lakefront, along Lake Michigan, as is explained this => …
..NOW … This Satellite Map View Identifies Many Buildings Mentioned In My Photos => .For Example, You Will Be Able To See Locations of U. Chicago’s => a) Cobb Lecture Hall, b) Hospital, c) Bookstore, d) Main Quadrangle, e) Midway Plaisance, which is a Mile Long Mall, along the South Side of the U. C. Campus, and was part of the 1893 Chicago Exposition World’s Fair (Read More at Plaisance & Neighborhoods Below). …. RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT “NEW TAB” => After Satellite Map View Comes Up, ClickOn The Plus&Minus To Zoom. You Can “Click&Drag” Map In Any Direction, to See More Off Your Screen Edges.

..B) A University of Chicago Page Will Come Up Showing Map of U. Chicago Campus. . At Left of Map, You Can Click-On LIST, To IDENTIFY MANY U. CHICAGO BUILDINGS Mentioned In Photos In This Album. For Example: Cobb Hall, The University’s Hospital, and University Bookstore …. RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT NEW TAB => After UC Campus Map View Comes Up, ClickOn The Plus&Minus To Zoom. You Can Click&Drag Map In Any Direction, to See More Off Your Screen Edges.
…ALSO Notice SEARCH Box.

..C) .. When “The University of Chicago Was Originally Being Constructed”, Adjacent to The South & East Was “The 1893 World's Fair: Columbian Exposition”. This was also known as the “Chicago World's Fair”.
… Dedicated in October in 1892, this World's Fair held in Chicago, was to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World in 1492.
…The Exposition was located in Jackson Park and on The Midway Plaisance, on 630 acres (2.5 km2) in the neighborhoods of South Shore, Jackson Park Highlands, Hyde Park, and Woodlawn. (The Above Are Excerpts From Wikipedia.)
….More Wikipedia Historical Information, AND ~THIRTY REALLY GREAT PHOTOS of the 1892 Fair. => RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT “NEW TAB” => AFTER The Wikipedia Page Comes-Up, click on any of the Photos, to see Very Large Photos, in a Special Photo Viewer. In this Photo Viewer, you can click on the > at right, to Advance Next. .

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In Front of UC’s Cobb Lecture Hall Looking South to Bond Chapel (Left) and Wieboldt Hall (Right). Across the Central Quadrangle.

… Phaedrus Probably Passed This Ivy Covered Chapel Many Times.

… “Adler’s study of evidence, cross-fertilized by a reading of classics of the Western world, resulted in a conviction that human wisdom had advanced relatively little in recent times. He consistently harked back to St. Thomas Aquinas, who had taken Plato and Aristotle and made them part of his medieval synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian faith. The work of Aquinas and of the Greeks, as interpreted by Aquinas, was to Adler the capstone of the Western intellectual heritage. Therefore they provided a measuring rod for anyone seeking the good books. “ (U. Chicago Cont. Next)

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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About 15 Miles North Of Oregon’s Upper Klamath Lake, A Peaceful Valley Scene, With Distant Mountains To The West.

Along Rt-62, ~25 Miles Southeast Of Crater Lake, Oregon.

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NOTES CONCERNING DAVID MATOS & HENRY GURR TRAVEL, AFTER CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK.
…After going by the Park’s South Gate, we tuned leftt (East) and traveling Southeast on Rt-62, to where we arrived at US-97, where 800 feet Northeast, is.the very likely location of The ZMM Narrator’s => “ Roadhouse Restaurant.Described As This =>
… “We travel down the eastern shore of Klamath Lake on a three-lane highway that contains a lot of nineteen- twenties feeling. That’s when these three-laners were all made. We pull in for lunch at a roadhouse which belongs to this era too. Wooden frame badly in need of paint, neon beer signs in the window, gravel and engine drippings for a front lawn.
Inside, the toilet seat is cracked and the washbowl is covered with grease streaks, but on my way back to our booth I take a second look at the owner behind the bar. A nineteen-twenties face. Uncomplicated, uncool and unbowed. This is his castle. We’re his guests. And if we don’t like his hamburgers we’d better shut up.
When they arrive, the hamburgers, with giant raw onions, are tasty and the bottle beer is fine. A whole meal for a lot less than you’d pay at one of those old-ladies places with plastic flowers in the window. As we eat I see on the map we’ve taken a wrong turn way back and could have gotten to the ocean much quicker by another route. It’s hot now, a West Coast sticky hotness which after the Western Desert hotness is very depressing. Really, this is just transported East, all of this scene, and I’d like to get to the ocean where it’s cool as soon as possible.
I think about this all around the southern shore of Klamath Lake. Sticky hotness and nineteen-twenties funk. . . . That was the feeling of Chicago that summer ….”
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The NEXT PHOTO’s “Explanation”, Tells How ZMM Expert Lee Glover, happened to discover The ZMM Narrator’s Klamath Lake Restaurant, called the “Rapids Café”, and get photos, which are shown in the Subsequent 4 Photos.
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David Matos & Henry Gurr, continued South on US-97 thtu Klamath Falls, Oregon, and found various roads to Medford, Oregon.

Later, David Matos & Henry Gurr, Turn West Along The ZMM Narrator’s I-5 Freeway Where ZMM Narrator Says =>
…“When we’re through the folded hills we come to Medford and a freeway leading to Grants Pass and it’s almost evening. A heavy head wind keeps us just up with traffic on upgrades, even with the throttle wide open.” “Coming into Grants Pass we hear a frightening, loud, clanking noise and stop to discover that the chain guard has become caught in the chain somehow and now is all torn up.”

And, As David Matos & Henry Gurr, Drove Towards Grants Pass, Oregon,
…somehow David & Henry took a wrong turn, and failed to follow The ZMM Route, and became totally lost & disoriented!.
…Moreover, time was getting short to meet Bill Quaccia & Blue Nelson at The Welder’s Shop near Grants Pass, Oregon. …. Consequently. David & Henry did not try to backtrack find the correct route, or take time to find other sights worthy of stopping. Especially so, since Henry’s 2002 Photos were/are sufficient, and can be viewed in forthcoming photos.
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A Google Street View Shows Very Likely, What the Narrator Experienced When Going By Klamath Lake.

…After Leaving The South Gate Of Crater Lake National Park, Then Turning Right (East) And Traveling Southeast On Rt-62 =>

…The ZMM Route Traveler Can Catch Glimpses of Upper Klamath Lake.

…And Beyond the Lake, Can Be Seen The Distant Mountains, That The ZMM Route Crosses on the way to Medford, OR and then to Grants Pass OR.

… “ We travel down the eastern shore of Klamath Lake …. “ (Cont. Next)

On Crater Lake Road, Rt-62, approximately 3 miles NW of intersection of road from Crater Lake, Rt-62, with US-97, Upper Klamath Lake, OR.

EXPLANATION:
… After leaving the South Gate Of Crater Lake National Park, Then Turning Right (East) And Traveling Southeast On Rt-62, the first opportunity for a meal would be Fort Klamath, OR. But this is only 11 miles and too early for midday lunch. The next practical opportunity is ~12 more miles, upon the return to “civilization” at the “Intense High Traffic” US-97.

The NEXT FOUR Photos Illustrate & Explain =>
…How ZMM Route Researcher Lee Glover, Successfully Found The “Rapids Café”: This was the ZMM Narrator’s Restaurant Where =>
… “We pull in for lunch at a roadhouse which belongs to this era too. Wooden frame badly in need of paint, neon beer signs in the window, gravel and engine drippings for a front lawn. .. Inside, the toilet seat is cracked and the washbowl is covered with grease streaks, …. “
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Lee Glover’s Photo From An Old Google Street View, Shows The “Rapids Cafe'”.

…This Is Very Likely The Oregon “Roadhouse” Restaurant, That The ZMM Narrator Describes Along The Eastern Side Of Klamath Lake, OR.

… “We pull in for lunch at a roadhouse which belongs to this era too. Wooden frame badly in need of paint, neon beer signs in the window, gravel and engine drippings for a front lawn. .. Inside, the toilet seat is cracked and the washbowl is covered with grease streaks, …. “ (Cont. Next)

At intersection of road from Crater Lake, Rt-62, with US-97, along the Eastern shore of Klamath Lake, OR. My imagination failed me in my 2002 search for the Narrator’s Klamath Lake Road House!! My 1964 Rand McNally Map shows, the towns along the water’s edge of Upper Klamath Lake. These are Modoc Point, Algoma, Wocus, Pelican City, and Klamath Falls. (Pelican City is now a Northern Suburb of Klamath Falls.) I was expecting all these towns to be along the lake waterfront, and at one time they probably were. I remember beach type homes along the lakefront when I came through here in 1989.
…It never occurred to me that I was on a new highway a considerable distance away from the towns the Narrator may have gone through. I now realize I was misled by my memory of my 1989 trip, becase I had the quite reasonable memory expectation that the towns were at the water’s edge. Since I was traveling at the water’s edge, I kept going under the belief that I would find these towns per my memory. But were these were merely ghosts in my mind?
…A likely reason. I failed to see the water’s edge (and the towns) because the water had been moved and I did not realize this! Since my1989 trip, a new dyke system may have been built far from the original shore. This allowed the water to be pumped out, and thus the creation of new agriculture land. See Topozone maps 2nd photo previous. Also see the other links on the previous photo, for considerable discussion of how a largest percentage of the original Upper Klamath Lake has been claimed for agriculture!!
…I hypothesize that originally these towns were situated by the lake edge marshes. And originally the main N-S road curved along the lake edge to go through them. The Topozone maps (previous photo) shows extensive dikes and pumping stations. To make dry farm land, these dykes apparently, have moved both the water’s edge and the highway!! Consequently the new & straightened US-97 is some 3/4 mile East of Algoma and Wocus. Moreover, on the approach to Klamath Falls, Rt-57 travels on a huge dike (at lake’s edge) for a considerable distance.

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Click Here. To See A Google Street View, Showing A Casino & Truckstop Refueling Station, Where Was Formerly The “Rapids Cafe'”
ATTENTION: AFTER This Google Street View comes up => At lower left, click on Box to expand the Strip Map. Then ClickDrag the Strip Map, to the Right, until you can see Klamath Lake at Left.


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The NEXT Photo Explains How I Request Help For Getting Photos To Fit The Above ZMM Passage.
…As you will learn ZMM Route Researcher Lee Glover, Successfully Found The “Rapids Café” Shown In The /\ Above /\, And Next Two Photos.
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The “Rapids Cafe'”, An Oregon Roadhouse.

…Lee Glover's Photo From A 1980 Klamath County Yearbook.
…This Is Very Likely What the Narrator Experienced At Klamath Lake.

… “We pull in for lunch at a roadhouse which belongs to this era too. Wooden frame badly in need of paint, neon beer signs in the window, gravel and engine drippings for a front lawn. .. Inside, the toilet seat is cracked and the washbowl is covered with grease streaks, …. “ (Cont. Next)

At intersection of road from Crater Lake, Rt-62, with US-97, along the Eastern shore of Klamath Lake, OR.

Where Is The “Roadhouse” That Fits The Above ZMM Narrator’s Passage. …Back in May 27, 2013 I Henry Gurr. sent an email to my list of ZMM Enthusiasts, asking =>
“Do you know of any restaurant in Klamath Lake, OR area that fits this Narrator’s description?”
…Mr Lee Glover, immediately replied with 3 Email Attachments Of Photos showing the “Rapids Café”, with the following explanation =>

Henry,

I did some research a few years ago in the Klamath Falls area including talking to locals and reading the passage in the book to them.

They told me there were very few restaurants along highway 97 between the Crater Lake Junction and Klamath Falls serving alcohol in 1968. The state of Oregon has a long history with prohibition dating back to the Oregon Territory. The state enacted prohibition four years before it became the law of the nation.

One exception to restaurants selling alcohol was the Rapids Cafe located at the junction of highways 97 and 62. Robert and Chris left Crater Lake on highway 62 before reaching highway 97, the main north/south corridor in central Oregon.

When I was last there it was good fortune that a yard sale was going on next to the Rapids Motel. I purchased a 1980 yearbook for Klamath County at the sale and asked the people running the sale some questions. They lived in the area their entire lives.

Attached is a page from the yearbook and a crop of the Rapids Cafe and gas station.

While there is no mention of filling up there, this was the logical stop after the long ride through Crater Lake NP. The only other option was a stop for fuel in Fort Klamath but there is no mention of that either. They could eat and fill up at the same stop when they reached US-97.

While the cafe in the photo does not have the run down look described in the book, it certainly has a 1920's look. If this is the restaurant, the sequence is a bit off as Pirsig describes the 1920's feel of highway 97 before stopping but I do not see that as a contradiction in the context of the narrative.

I will spare you my analysis of the brilliant use of metaphor that demonstrates how great a writer Pirsig was.

I believe they stopped at the Rapids Cafe and that much of the colorful description was purely metaphorical.

I traveled between Eugene and Klamath Falls many times during the 1970's and don't recall any other places along highway 97 between Eugene and KF. If there was, we never stopped and since I worked with a construction crew, we usually stopped where alcohol was served.

Regarding the [ZMM Narrator’s] missed turn, I think the two most likely possibilities are a missed right turn onto highway 62 south of Crater Lake or the turn at Fort Klamath which would follow the western shore of Klamath Lake. There are several turns towards the coast at and beyond Redmond which they "missed" and given the distance traveled makes it unlikely he was referring to a missed turn as far back as Redmond.

I think the most likely candidate is turning left instead of right onto highway 62 but I am only guessing.

I hope this helps. Feel free to include the photographs on the website. There are no credits specifically for the photographs but the yearbook is Copyrighted 1981 by Carefree Living Productions, Inc.

Lee

SIDE NOTE:
…Mr Glover says this Roadhouse Restaurant was called the “Rapids Café” and later the “Bend Café”
…..As is seen on a Satellite View, 2000 feet East of the river side of the intersection of Rt-62 & US-97, are both, a River Bend & River Rapids, in the Sprague River.
…These facts concerning the river, help confirm that indeed correct for the location of this “Roadhouse”.

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For Deeper Understanding of how the ZMM Narrator would have gotten to Klamath Lake, and say “ “I see on the map we’ve taken a wrong turn way back and could have gotten to the ocean much quicker by another route.
… Please Read Our => ZMM Research Examination => Why ZMM Narrator’s Abrupt 90 Degree Turn South, At Prineville Junction, Oregon?
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So, Many Thanks to ZMM Route Researcher Lee Glover, For Successfully Finding The “Rapids Café” Shown In The /\ Above /\ Photo. The Previous Photo, And The Next Photo.
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The “Rapids Cafe'”, An Oregon Roadhouse.

…Lee Glover’s Photo From An Old Google Street View Close Up.
…This Is Very Likely What the Narrator Experienced At Klamath Lake.

… “We pull in for lunch at a roadhouse which belongs to this era too. Wooden frame badly in need of paint, neon beer signs in the window, gravel and engine drippings for a front lawn. .. Inside, the toilet seat is cracked and the washbowl is covered with grease streaks, …. “ (Cont. Next)

At intersection of road from Crater Lake, Rt-62, with US-97, along the Eastern shore of Klamath Lake, OR.

Many Thanks To ZMM Route Researcher Lee Glover, For Successfully Founding The “Rapids Café” Shown In The /\ Above /\ And Two Previous Photo.
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Inside The Little Pine Cafe' Back in Mitchel, OR. This Roadhouse Owner Illustrates What the Narrator May Have Experienced by Klamath Lake. Clearly This Restaurant Is Much, Much, Better Than What the Narrator Described at Klamath Lake.

…“ …. on my way back to our booth I take a second look at the owner behind the bar. A nineteen-twenties face. Uncomplicated, uncool and unbowed. This is his castle. We’re his guests. And if we don’t like his hamburgers we’d better shut up. .. When they arrive, the hamburgers, with giant raw onions, are tasty and the bottle beer is fine. A whole meal for a lot less than you’d pay at one of those old-ladies places with plastic flowers in the window. As we eat I see on the map we’ve taken a wrong turn way back and could have gotten to the ocean much quicker by another route. “ (Cont .Next)


Somewhere along the Eastern shore of Klamath Lake, OR.

SIDE NOTE: Did Author Robert Pirsig Ever Explicitly Say => How To Pick A Good Restaurant.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 Fred Goldman Emailed =>
…I am Fred Goldman: I spent thirty or forty years KNOWING that story about picking a restaurant from “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”. But, in fact, it is not in that book. …I would have sworn on my life that it was. Go figure.
…The story that I recollect t was told upon entering the region of Mt. Rushmore, a place that does not appear in “The Art”.
I remembered all my life two stories from that book.
… One is {Robert Pirsig’s idea] about the gumption trap that I tell others about all the time.
….The other was the restaurant story: look for two out of three things, namely, live flowers, curtains and a personal name on the marquis.
…Both of these stories have proven their worth countless times for me.

I look forward to your reply and the reason you have contacted me after all this time.

Fred

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Standing By US-97 And Looking South, A View Along The Eastern Shore of Upper Klamath Lake.

…AND An Un-Answered Puzzle: Why Is This Super High Electric Fence Here?

….Along the road through here => The Narrator completes a four page discussion of: 1) Phaedrus’ discoveries about the University of Chicago, 2) Hutchins’s and Adler’s Great Books Program, and 3) Aristotle. 4) Phaedrus’s hatred of Aristotle is also reviewed.
…This part of the story ends with Phaedrus’ proposition regarding Aristotle, in an audacious letter to the Chairman of the Committee on Ideas and Methods. We then are switched back to the road =>]

…"We travel down the eastern shore of Klamath Lake on a three-lane highway that contains a lot of nineteen- twenties feeling. That’s when these three-laners were all made." (Cont. Next)

Eleven miles North of Klamath Falls, OR. Klamath is the name of one of three Native American tribes that lived in this region prior to the arrival of the Europeans.

….From Crater Lake, I drove South along Rt-62, and then US-97, eventually following the Eastern Shore of Upper Klamath Lake. For this distance I did NOT discover any evidence for a three lane road that would fit the Narrator’s descriptions. I deduce that I traveled on a newer straightened highway, different from the road the Narrator traveled on in 1968.

….The Discussion Below (Keyed To A Google Satellite View), Gives What Is Known About The Roads The Narrator May Have Taken Back In 1968.
As You May Have Already Done, In The Steps Mentioned In The SIXTH Photo Previous => In This Satellite View, You Can “Zoom-In Maximum”, To See =>
..1) US-97 is Generally A Straight High Speed Two Lanes … With some places added non-traffic safety lanes on both sides, … the whole length of Upper Klamath Lake.
..2) But where the Lake Shore & US-97 curve from going SE to going SW, you can here see (At Hagelstein County Park, shown Satellite View /\ Above/\) where there is ALSO Rt-671 (Algoma Road), Going South. …This is clearly an older, original, twisty-windy road, that goes through successive towns in the area.
..3) Following this Road South in the above-mentioned Satellite View, you can see it is narrow two lanes, with no evident wider places where there may once have been three lanes. Further South, shows two more stretches of older, original road (Shady Pine Road & Wocus Road), with the same conclusions.
..4) I (Henry Gurr) did Extensive Googling for dates when the Straight High Speed Two Lanes were constructed, but could NOT find any clues. But It seems likely that Author Robert Pirsig came through in 1968, before the newer Straight, High Speed, Two Lanes were constructed, and the ZMM Narrator followed the older original twisty-windy roads, as mentioned 2) above.
..5) TopoZone maps also show plenty of Dikes and Pumping Stations. Evidently, these Dikes And Pumping Stations are done for agriculture in agreement with the statements of Wetlands Wildlife Preserve. Various Internet WebPages say that 80% of original wetlands have been drained.
..6) Wikipedia Gives A Good History Of The Upper Klamath Lake Area, and Discusses The Uses & Modifications to Klamath Lake. Click Here.

SIDE NOTE:
Back in Bend, OR, US-97.was the ZMM Narrator’s “ hyped-up danger close in.. High Speed, four .lane highway. This was the “High Traffic” US-97 ZMM Route, which was Jampacked, Intense, Insane, and Over Busy!
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After Turning Off Of US-97, Looking South Along A City Street.

…The Eastern USA Cultural Influence Spreads West To Oregon.

…“It’s hot now, a West Coast sticky hotness which after the Western Desert hotness is very depressing. Really, this is just transported East, all of this scene, and I’d like to get to the ocean where it’s cool as soon as possible.“ (Cont. Next)

Entering Klamath Falls, OR. I have memories of when I traveled this way in Winter of ‘98. I remember how beastly hot the western mid pm sun became and that there was a three lane highway. I remember seeing, through the trees, the glare of the hot late afternoon sun, reflected from the lake. Amongst the trees were rundown, small unkempt beach type homes along the lake front. The beastly heat exaggerated the amount of time it took, at 55 mph, to pass the lake. I was surprised how big the lake was in this dry desert region. My trip by Klamath Lake was several days after a Workshop Course in Portland, OR, 15 Feb 1989.
… New topic: There was once a Klamath Falls on the so called Link River that connected Upper Klamath Lake to lower Klamath Lake. The falls have since been covered by water. Was this, perhaps, a dam raising Lower Klamath Lake which perhaps raised the level of both lakes as well as covering the falls?

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After a Concentrated Search, I Was Able To Find the Road Along The Southern Shore Of The Lake.

…“ […. this is just transported East, all of this scene, and I’d like to get to the ocean where it’s cool as soon as possible.] .. I think about this all around the southern shore of Klamath Lake. “ (Cont. Next)

Rt-140, SW shore of Upper Klamath Lake, OR. ************************

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Along The Klamath Lake Southwest Shore Road, Looking Back Towards Klamath Falls.

…[The sticky heat of Klamath Lake brings memories to the Narrator.] “Sticky hotness and nineteen-twenties funk.. . . . That was the feeling of Chicago that summer.“ (Cont. Next)

Rt-140, SW shore of Upper Klamath Lake, OR.
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Nineteen Thirties Style Apartments Several Blocks North of the University of Chicago.

…Perhaps This What Phaedrus’s Chicago Place of Residence Looked Like.

[At Klamath Lake, the three lane highways, the heat, and 1930’s type buildings, remind the Narrator of his feelings of Chicago during that summer => ]… “When Phædrus and his family arrived in Chicago, he took up residence near the University and, since he had no scholarship, began full-time teaching of rhetoric at the University of Illinois, which was then downtown at Navy Pier, sticking out into the lake, funky and hot. .. Classes were different from those in Montana. The top high-school students had been skimmed off to the Champaign and Urbana campuses and almost all the students he taught were a solid monotonous C. When their papers were judged in class for Quality it was hard to distinguish among them. Phædrus, in other circumstances, probably would have invented something to get around this, but now this was just bread-and-butter work for which he couldn’t spare creative energy. His interest lay to the south at the other University.“(U. Chicago. Cont. Next)

Several blocks North of The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. *************************

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