Beautiful Scenery, But Tough For The Plant Life Without Irrigation.
“ [Just tension, I guess.].. It fits one of the fragments of this memory, in which many mornings the tension was so intense he would throw up everything before he got to his first classroom. He loathed appearing before classrooms of students and talking. It was a complete violation of his whole lone, isolated way of life, and what he experienced was intense stage fright, except that it never showed on him as stage fright, but rather as a terrific intensity about everything he did. Students had told his wife it was just like electricity in the air. The moment he entered the classroom all eyes turned on him and followed him as he walked to the front of the room. All conversation died to a hush and remained at a hush even though it was several minutes, often, before the class started. Throughout the hour the eyes never strayed from him. .. He became much talked about, a controversial figure. The majority of students avoided his sections like the Black Death. They had heard too many stories.“
Five miles down river from Montana Route 540, Minor MT . Notice Narrator’s “It fits …." You will see many more examples of how the Narrator actively looks for the landscape to prompt his story! Master Motif? The narrator uses variations of the word “fit" approximately 32 times.
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Looking Back at the Mountains of Yellowstone National Park.
“The school was what could euphemistically be called a "teaching college." At a teaching college you teach and you teach and you teach with no time for research, no time for contemplation, no time for participation in outside affairs. Just teach and teach and teach until your mind grows dull and your creativity vanishes and you become an automaton saying the same dull things over and over to endless waves of innocent students who cannot understand why you are so dull, lose respect and fan this disrespect out into the community. The reason you teach and you teach and you teach is that this is a very clever way of running a college on the cheap while giving a false appearance of genuine education. .. Yet despite this he called the school by a name that didn’t make much sense, in fact sounded a little ludicrous in view of its actual nature. But the name had great meaning to him, and he stuck to it and he felt, before he left, that he had rammed it into a few minds sufficiently hard to make it stick. He called it a "Church of Reason," and much of the puzzlement people had about him could have ended if they’d understood what he meant by this.“
On Southwest edge of Livingston MT.
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The Interstate to Bozeman Pass Is Seen In the Distance. North View
“We reach an intersection where the road from the park joins the main east-west highway, stop and turn on to it. .. From here we go over a low pass and into Bozeman itself. The road goes up now, heading west, and suddenly I’m looking forward to what’s ahead.“
On Southwest edge of Livingston MT
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Winding Down Through Bozeman Pass and Into the Green Valley.
“ .... we go over a low pass and into Bozeman itself. .... suddenly I’m looking forward to what’s ahead.“
Halfway down Bozeman Pass, Just East of, Bozeman, MT.
As I went over this pass on my 2002 trip along this Interstate, I looked for a good photo place that showed the walls of the pass and the edge of the town. But there was never any such view. And it was too late to go back. But in 2006 I remembered to stop sooner, and here it is minus any evidence of the town! The blue haze is smoke from extensive forest fires in Colorado about 1000 miles away. Those fires must have been huge to cause this much smoke so far away! The smoke persisted for over two weeks during my trip from Red Lodge through Bozeman MT, to Helena MT, and back through YNP and the Grand Tetons! ************************************
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The Green Valley Where It All Happened
“We ride down out of the pass onto a small green plain. To the immediate south we can see pine-forested mountains that still have last winter’s snow on the peaks. In all other directions appear lower mountains, more in the distance, but just as clear and sharp. This picture-postcard scenery vaguely fits memory but not definitely. This interstate freeway we are on must not have existed then.“
East side of Bozeman MT Did you recognize the Narrator’s Master Motif? My panorama of this location will be uploaded asap.
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In Late Summer and Early Fall the Springtime Green Valley Has Turned to Golden and Brown.
“[We ride down out of the pass onto a small green plain. ..... This interstate freeway we are on must not have existed then.]“
East side of Bozeman, MT. Here is the freeway as Narrator and crew would have experienced it. Most of the moisture here comes as irrigation or in the winter and spring, as rain or snow. When late summer comes the land dries up as you see here. The Narrator and crew came thru here in July, so his “small green plain“ would have been true and they would have seen the valley as is shown in nearly all my other Gallatin Valley photos except the above one.
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Entrance To Town Is On East Main Street.
“ .. The statement "To travel is better than to arrive" comes back to mind again and stays. We have been traveling and now we will arrive. For me a period of depression comes on when I reach a temporary goal like this and have to reorient myself toward another one. In a day or two John and Sylvia must go back and Chris and I must decide what we want to do next. Everything has to be reorganized.“
Entrance to .Bozeman, MT. As you read the Narrator’s above passage, did you recognize a potential ZMM Master Motif: “"To travel is better than to arrive"“? But paradoxily this phrase is used only once. As should be true for a book on Quality the Narrator used the word better 54 times and the phrase "better than" 15 times.
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Montana Motor Supply, Southwest View
“The main street of the town seems vaguely familiar but there’s a feeling of being a tourist now and I see the shop signs are for me, the tourist, and not for people who live here. This isn’t really a small town. People are moving too fast and too independently of one another. It’s one of these population fifteen-to-thirty-thousand towns that isn’t exactly a town, not exactly a city...not exactly anything really.“
East Main Street Bozeman MT
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Left to Right: Bar, Burger Bob's, and Coffee House, Northwest View
“ We eat lunch in a glass-and-chrome restaurant that brings no recall at all. It looks as though it’s been built since he lived here and shows the same lack of self-identity seen on the main street. .. I go to a phone book and look for Robert DeWeese’s number but don’t find it. I dial the operator but she’s never heard of the party and can’t tell me the number. I don’t believe it! Were they just in his imagination? Her statement produces a panicky feeling that lasts for a moment, but then I remember their answer to my letter telling them we were coming and calm down. Imaginary people don’t use the mails. John suggests I try to call the art department or some friends. I smoke for a while and drink coffee, and when I’m relaxed again I do this and learn how to get there. It’s not the technology that’s scary. It’s what it does to the relations between people, like callers and operators, that’s scary.“
Central Business District, Main Street, Bozeman MT This is one of the few remaining 50’s-60’s style restaurants I was able to find on Bozeman’s Main Street. It may or may not be the ZMM Restaurant. The DeWeese family lives `12 miles South of Bozeman, and their address in the town of Gallatin Gateway MT. So it isn’t surprising that the operator did not know them, and that in 1968, the DeWeese phone number was not in the Bozeman phone directory.
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A Wide Irrigated Valley Runs South from Bozeman. To Cottonwood Canyon.
“From the town to the mountains across the valley floor must be less than ten miles, and we cross that distance now on dirt roads through rich green high alfalfa ready for cutting, so thick it looks difficult to walk through. The fields sweep outward and slightly upward to the base of the mountains where a much darker green of the pines rises suddenly up. That will be where the DeWeese’s live. Where the light green and the dark green meet.“
Gallatin Gateway, MT. This road is called 19thStreet in Bozeman, but is called =Route 19 South once you get out of town. Continued from previous photo: The DeWeese family live 12 miles South of Bozeman, and their address in the town of Gallatin Gateway, MT. So it isn’t surprising in 1968, that the DeWeese phone number was not in the Bozeman phone directory. Nor surprising that the operator did not know them. New topic: When the Narrator can't get the DeWeese phone number he gets a “panicky feeling“, and has to calm down with coffee before he can deal with the problem. Persons who have lived very, very, stressed lives will sympathize with the panic feeling brought on by a series of too many new challenges. Hi-stressed persons, like myself, instantly recognize the need for calming effects of a pause for rest with food & coffee etc.
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A View Back Towards Bozeman “Straight Down the Road”!
“The wind is full of the lightgreen new-mown-hay smells and livestock smells. At one point we pass through a cold bank of air where the smell changes to pine, but then are back in the warmth again. Sunlight and meadows …. “
Route 19 South, Gallatin Gateway MT
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We Can Now Pick Out Cottonwood Canyon and the Gravel Road Into the Narrow Canyon Floor
“ …. and the close-looming mountain. Just as we get to the pines, the gravel in the road becomes very deep. We slow down to first gear and ten miles an hour and I keep both feet off the pegs to kick the cycle upright again if it should mush into the gravel and start to go down.
Gallatin Gateway MT
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The Approach To the DeWeese Homestead. Note Enormous Ceramic Sculptures.
“We round a corner and suddenly enter the pines and a very steep V canyon in the mountain, and there right beside the road is a large grey house …. “
DeWeese Home, Gallatin Gateway MT In ZMM, we learned that Robert (Bob) DeWeese is an artist and professor; but unmentioned in ZMM is fact that Gennie DeWeese also in an accomplished artist! .At http://www.deweeseart.com/ you will learn that the entire DeWeese family are artist, each with their own unique way. Please be sure to visit the DeWeese Family WebSite where you will see photos of “DeWeeseArt” and find their email addresses.
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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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Entrance to DeWeese Homestead With Deck & Rectangular Framed Sculpture on Wall. Hi On House At Extreme Photo Right Edge Looks Like Yet Another Art Work!
“I’m so busy keeping the machine up I can’t take my hands off the grips and I wave a leg back instead. The living image of DeWeese himself grins as we pull up. .. "You found it," he says. Relaxed smile. Happy eyes. .. "It’s been a long time," I say. I feel happy too, though strange at suddenly seeing the image move and talk.“
DeWeese Home, Cottonwood Canyon Road, Gallatin Gateway, MT. Continued from above re “Right out of the old photographs.“. The Narrator gives a similar hint re the writing of ZMM on page 110 where he mentions they take obligatory “record photographs“! Certainly this illustrates that as he is writing, these photographs are on his mind. Of course he tries to pretend he and his friends are not "tourists" as they take these photos. To see the artwork mentioned in the title above, double-click on the photo till you get the largest view.
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“Right out of the old photographs.“
“We dismount and take off our riding gear and I see that the open porch deck he and his guests are on is unfinished and unweathered. DeWeese looks down from where it is only a few feet above the road on our side, but the V of the canyon slants so steeply that on the far side the ground descends fifteen feet below the deck.“
DeWeese Home, Gallatin Gateway, MT. Again we note the factual precision of ZMM. As you will see, (6th photo next) “Robert Pirsig’s 1968 Pictures, show this same rear of the house deck handrail +mountains in the distance. However, in contrast to my pictures, with grey/blue paint, Pirsig’s first picture shows the unpainted, but relatively new wood of the handrail, just as the Narrator says above. Instructions how to see those photos will be given in fifth photo next.
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Cottonwood Canyon Valley Floor, Ceramics and Stream
“The stream itself appears another fifty feet down and away from the house, among trees and deep grass where a horse, partially hidden by the trees, grazes without looking up. Now we have to look high to see the sky. Surrounding us is the dark-green forest we watched as we approached.“
DeWeese Homestead, Gallatin Gateway MT Reff Pirsig Pix
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A Modern Version of Traditional Yurt Made Years Later by DeWeese’s Daughter Tina
“’This is just beautiful!’ Sylvia says.
The living image of DeWeese smiles down at her. ‘Thank you,’ he says, ‘I’m glad you like it.’ His tone is all here and now, completely relaxed. I realize that although this is the authentic image of DeWeese himself, it’s also a brand-new person who’s been renewing himself continually and I’m going to have to get to know him all over again.“
DeWeese Home, Gallatin Gateway MT
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