We Are Moving Up Towards The Narrators High Country, Both Physical and Mental.
“Soon stunted pines disappear entirely and we’re in alpine meadows. There’s not a tree anywhere, …. “
Beartooth Pass Highway, MT. This passage and all the rest of ZMM page 110 plus 1/2 of page 111, is poetically getting us ready, by analogy, for the “ High Country of the Mind“. This is the narrator’s way of introducing us to the next 9 pages of his Chautauqua on Western Philosophy. These lectures cover the Narrators version of how our 20th Century thinking came to be, as well as related rationality/scientific developments. He also shows the ugly consequences of these modes of thinking in our culture. The motorcycle is used as a concrete illustration of “a priori concepts“. The ZMM narrative builds to a climax as we move towards the Narrator’s High Country “summit “. We are moving higher and away from Rock Creek where we will see it from a distance, Then see Rock Creek Canyon again at a Ski Lift Area, whereupon the highway takes us Southeast and for a while away from Rock Creek Canyon. Finally the road swings West by Southwest back again to the edge of Rock Creek.
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(Photo = 106-0620cz2.0 ...... ZMM Page = 110 ...... WayPt =136i. Photo at 136k)