DeWeese Home With Iron Sculpture On Side of House. Canyon and Mountains Also Seen.
“ …. with an enormous abstract iron sculpture attached to one side and beneath it sitting in a chair tipped back against the house surrounded by company is the living image of DeWeese himself with a can of beer in his hand, which waves to us. Right out of the old photographs.“
DeWeese Home, Gallatin Gateway, MT. ZMM Research question based on the above passage: Does any body know of any more of these old family photos? Below you will see several of Mr. Pirsig's 1968 photos of his original "ZMM Trip". As you will see, some of Mr. Pirsig's factual ZMM descriptions (look like they) came “Right out of the old photographs.“. Is this his hint about his writing of ZMM?. And all this leads me to hypothesize that author Pirsig had many, many, more photos than the twelve currently available. I also hypothesize that these additional photos were the foundation for much of Mr. Pirsig's vivid (and factual) landscape descriptions in ZMM. New topic: Although There Were Plenty of Ceramic Sculptures at the DeWeese Homestead, I believe the “enormous abstract iron sculpture attached to one side” is seen here as the red-brown-rust colored Art Work on the wall at left side of the house.
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(Photo = 108-0816c ...... ZMM Page = 137 ...... WayPt = 198`|m|' 5720ft)