In Front of University of Chicago’s Cobb Lecture Hall Looking North.

…“He entered the University of Chicago registration lineup, announced his name to the registering Professor of Philosophy and noticed a slight setting of the eyes. The Professor of Philosophy said, Oh, yes, the Chairman had asked that he be registered in an Ideas and Methods course which the Chairman himself was teaching, and give him the schedule of the course. Phædrus noted that the time set for the class conflicted with his schedule at Navy Pier and chose instead another one, Ideas and Methods 251, Rhetoric. Since rhetoric was his own field, he felt a little more at home here. And the lecturer wasn’t the Chairman. The lecturer was the Professor of Philosophy now registering him. The Professor of Philosophy’s eyes, formerly set, now became wide. .. Phædrus returned to his teaching at Navy Pier and his reading for his first class. It was now absolutely necessary that he study as he had never studied before to learn the thought of Classic Greece in general and of one Classic Greek in particular—Aristotle.“ (U. Chicago Cont. Next)

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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In Front of University of Chicago’s Cobb Lecture Hall, Looking East Onto the South Sidewalk Of Main Quad (Quadrangle). Swift Hall Is At Right.

…“Of all the thousands of students at the University of Chicago who had studied the ancient classics it’s doubtful that there was ever a more dedicated one. The main struggle of the University’s Great Books program was against the modern belief that the classics [Classic Greece in general and of one Classic Greek in particular—Aristotle.] had nothing of any real importance to say to a twentieth-century society. To be sure, the majority of students taking the courses must have played the game of nice manners with their teachers, and accepted, for purposes of understanding, the prerequisite belief that the ancients had something meaningful to say. But Phædrus, playing no games at all, didn’t just accept this idea. He passionately and fanatically knew it. He came to hate them vehemently, and to assail them with every kind of invective he could think of, not because they were irrelevant but for exactly the opposite reason. The more he studied, the more convinced he became that no one had yet told the damage to this world that had resulted from our unconscious acceptance of their thought.“ (Cont. Next)

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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Homes Along the Highway in SW Oregon.

…“[Around the southern shore of Klamath Lake we pass through some suburban-type development,] and then leave the lake …. “ (Cont. Next)

South Shore, Klamath Lake, OR. Photo to fit ZMM passage needed.
…Caution: There is NO Route marker sign where Rt-140 turns left away from the lake’s West Shore Drive.
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Among The Majestic Tall Douglas Fir Trees, Looking West, A View Of The Road Summit In SW Oregon Mountains Going West

…“ Chris wants to stop and walk among them and so we stop. .. While he goes for a walk I lean my back as carefully as possible against a big slab of Douglas fir bark and look up and try to remember.. . . . “ (Cont. Next)

On Rt-140, eleven miles West of Upper Klamath Lake, OR. All the scenery since Crater Lake exactly fits the Narrator’s descriptions. ************************
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Looking Back Towards Klamath Lake (East) In Mountainous Southwest Oregon. View From Where the Road “Crests” the Summit.

“ …. [and then leave the lake] to the west, toward the coast. The road goes up now into the forests of huge trees not at all like the rain-starved forests we’ve been through.“ (Cont. Next)

Eleven miles West of Upper Klamath Lake, OR. Caution: There is no Route marker sign where Rt-140 turns left away from the lake’s West Shore Drive. ************************

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Huge Douglas Fir Trees Are Found Along the Road’s Summit. Looking West (Forward) Towards Medford, OR and Grants Pass, OR.

…“Huge Douglas firs are on either side of the road. On the cycle we can look up along their trunks, straight up, for hundreds of feet as we pass between them. “ (Cont. Next)

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Cobb Lecture Hall, Main Entrance Door. The Narrator Tries To Remember What Happened At U. Chicago That Summer of 1961.

…“ The details of what he learned are lost now, but from events that occurred later I know he absorbed tremendous quantities of information. He was capable of doing this on a near-photographic basis. To understand how he arrived at his condemnation of the Classic Greeks it’s necessary to review in summary form the "mythos over logos" argument, which is well known to scholars of Greek and is often a cause of fascination with that area of study.“(U. Chicago Cont. Next)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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East End of The University of Chicago’s Main Quad Looking North.

The Narrator next reviews:
…1) “ Mythos is the sum total of the early historic and prehistoric myths which preceded the logos.“
…2) Memories of Phardrus’s argument of how “To go outside the mythos is to become insane. . . . “.
…3) And concludes this part of his Chautauqua with a major conclusion: ] “Now it comes! Because Quality is the generator of the mythos. That’s it. That’s what he meant when he said, "Quality is the continuing stimulus which causes us to create the world in which we live. All of it. Every last bit of it. Religion isn’t invented by man. Men are invented by religion. Men invent responses to Quality, and among these responses is an understanding of what they themselves are.“ (U. Chicago Cont. Next)

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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At East End of The University of Chicago’s Main Quad Looking Northwest.

…[Phaedrus] said: “ ["Quality is the continuing stimulus which causes us to create the world in which we live. All of it. Every last bit of it." ]…. “You know something and then the Quality stimulus hits and then you try to define the Quality stimulus, but to define it all you’ve got to work with is what you know. So your definition is made up of what you know. It’s an analogue to what you already know. It has to be. It can’t be anything else. And the mythos grows this way. By analogies to what is known before. The mythos is a building of analogues upon analogues upon analogues.“ (U. Chicago Cont. Next)

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. *************************
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East End of The University of Chicago’s Main Quad Looking East.

…“[The mythos is a building of analogues upon analogues upon analogues.] These fill the collective consciousness of all communicating mankind. Every last bit of it. The Quality is the track that directs the train. What is outside the train, to either side—that is the terra incognita of the insane. He knew that to understand Quality he would have to leave the mythos. That’s why he felt that slippage. He knew something was about to happen.“ (Cont. Next)

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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A View Among the Douglas Firs At Road Summit In SW Oregon Mountains.

…“I see Chris returning through the trees now. He looks relaxed and happy. He shows me a piece of bark and asks if he can save it as a souvenir. I haven’t been fond of loading the cycle with these bits and pieces he finds and will probably throw away when he gets home, but this time say okay anyway.“ (Cont. Next)

Eleven miles West of Upper Klamath Lake, OR. The Narrator has stopped here because Chris asked. Also, he allows Chris, against normal practice, to bring bark. Is the Narrator trying to please Chris more?
…Or is it the Narrator’s response to his own Quality lectures? Nevertheless, the Narrator doesn’t go with Chris or promote more of these relaxing opportunities for himself and Chris.
…Yes, I know the travel narrative “story” is “just” a vehicle for these Chautauquas, but evidently such walks with Chris, did not happen, or the Narrator would have mentioned them.
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The Next Road Summit. And Looking West, A View Into The Valley and Mountains Beyond.

…“After a few minutes the road reaches a summit …. “ (Cont. Next)

Twenty four miles West of Upper Klamath Lake, OR. *************************

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Now At A Lower Elevation, We Are Moving Towards the Narrator’s “Exquisite ” Coastal California Valleys.

The ZMM Narrator Says =>
…. “and then drops steeply into a valley that becomes more exquisite as we descend. I never thought I would call a valley that—exquisite—but there’s something about this whole coastal country so different from any other mountainous region in America that it brings out the word. Here, a little farther south, is where all our good wine comes from. The hills are somehow tucked and folded differently—exquisitely. ” (Cont. Next)

Twenty eight miles West of Upper Klamath Lake, OR.
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A SPECIAL NOTE => In A Previous Satellite View, Back At Cascade Meadows RV Resort, Was The Following Information =>
…. As Pointed Out By ZMM Book Expert Lee Glover =>
…This “Klamath Falls To Ashland” Route, Is VERY Likely The 40 Miles Of Oregon Road, Traveled By Author Robert Pirsig In 1968, Where, Along An Oregon Road, About Which, He Stated In ZMM =>
… “After a few minutes the road reaches a summit and then drops steeply into a valley that becomes more exquisite as we descend. I never thought I would call a valley that—exquisite—but there’s something about this whole coastal country so different from any other mountainous region in America that it brings out the word. ”

And, Here The ZMM Enthusiast Should Be Aware, That There Is A NEW Album Of Photos, Showing Views Along “40 Miles Of Oregon Road”, Which Fits VERY Well The ZMM Narrator’s Descriptions =>
…And Thus Is FAR More Likely The Route Followed By Author Robert Pirsig In 1968.

…Moreover, This New Album Shows, A Far Better Fit To The Narrator, Than The Route Shown In The NEXT Several Photos In This Album.
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To See This New Album => Click Here, And AFTER This EIGHT Sub-Albums Page Comes Up, Read & Remember What Is Here. THEN Click On The SIXTH Sub-Album That Says = THIS IS: A SUPPLEMENTAL ALBUM FOR ZMM BOOK PART IV: Photos Illustrating The Most Likely ZMM Route Of Travel ZMM In Oregon FROM The Small Town Of Klamath Falls, Oregon, TO About 40 miles Northwest of Ashland, Oregon. These Include Views Of The ZMM Narrator’s Exquisite Valley.
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As We Leave the Douglas Firs and Cool Oregon Mountains, The Beauty Of the Countryside Gives the Narrator a Tremendous Boost.

…“The road twists and banks and curlecues and descends and we and the cycle smoothly roll with it, following it in a separate grace of our own, almost touching the waxen leaves of shrubs and overhanging boughs of trees. The firs and rocks of the higher country are behind us now and around us are soft hills and vines and purple and red flowers, fragrance mixed with woodsmoke up from the distant fog along the valley floor and from beyond that, unseen—a vague scent of ocean. . . How can I love all this so much and be insane? . . . I don’t believe it! ” (Cont. Next)

Six miles East of White City, OR. White City is now a Northern suburb of Medford, OR.
…Here again we see the Narrator’s need for support from “Good old reality.“ We deduce that the Narrator’s full participation in the beautiful coastal country ahead comes from the positive effects of his remembering Phaedrus’s Quality discoveries. From this, he is certain he is not insane.
… Rather the insanity comes from our being immersed in the Mythos of our present-day Western Culture, as is presently practiced.
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In Front of The University of Chicago’s Cobb Lecture Hall Looking East, We See A Tree Lined Walk In The Center Of Their Main Quad.

…[The Narrator’s thoughts switch back to Chicago, and what Phaedrus believed:]
…“The mythos. The mythos is insane. That’s what he believed. The mythos that says the forms of this world are real but the Quality of this world is unreal, that is insane! .. And in Aristotle and the ancient Greeks he believed he had found the villains who had so shaped the mythos as to cause us to accept this insanity as reality. .. That. That now. That ties it all together. It feels relieving when that happens.” (Cont. Next)

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. I agree with the Narrator: We who live in the 20th century and consider ourselves “normal” are the ones who are afflicted with a dominant mythos that is indeed insane.
…For example => Consider that our country has in excess of 10,000 hydrogen bombs, each on rockets targeted (with 40 min arrival) towards the opposite side of the globe. And yet only a few people in our country seem to question it!
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Sunset And Low Elevation. A View Looking Back East To Where We Were, In the West Oregon Mountains.

…[“The mythos. The mythos is insane. That’s what he believed. The mythos that says the forms of this world are real but the Quality of this world is unreal, that is insane! .. And in Aristotle and the ancient Greeks he believed he had found the villains who had so shaped the mythos as to cause us to accept this insanity as reality. .. That. That now. That ties it all together. It feels relieving when that happens.” ]
… “It’s so hard sometimes to conjure all this up, a strange sort of exhaustion follows. Sometimes I think I’m just making it up myself. Sometimes I’m not sure. And sometimes I know I’m not. But the mythos and insanity, and the centrality of this—this I’m sure is from him. ” (Cont. Next)

Six miles North of Medford, OR.

. This Whole “Reality” Topic Is Important Enough To Have Its Own ZMMQ Page =>
… In the above “ italiced” words from ZMM, notice the Narrator’s emphasis on “ Reality,” Here, to be really sure you get full message, please > ( 3 each) > Do > Page Top > Edit > Find > real And read the surrounding text.
…From this you should see the importance of “Real, Reality, & Good Old Reality.”
… Click Here For A Special Study or => “Author Robert Pirsig’s Major Thread Topic “Quality, Reality, & “Good Old Reality.” “ as is written into Robert Pirsig’s book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”.
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The Narrator’s Freeway At Dusk.

…“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.” (Cont. Next)

Ten mi North West of Medford, OR. Why did the Narrator experience a strong wind from the West, whereas I, at dusk, found no wind at all?
…The Narrator came through here during mid-afternoon in hot, sunny conditions. And here, typical of all daytime coastal regions (or lake edges), there will be winds from over cold water toward the sun-heated inland areas. These “thermal winds” are caused by the land-heated air rising and being replaced by cooler air from over the water. These “thermals” would have created a direct headwind for the Narrator and Chris who were traveling West up this long, steep grade.
…I have experienced these same winds in several mountain areas inland from the California Coast. This is especially true where electrical power generation wind mills called turbines have been recently built. These are in the Mountain Road Pass Northeast of the San Francisco Bay, called Altamont Pass. Click Here.
…In any of these places, when the sun goes down, the fierce winds stop. The coast-mountain-desert-sun relationships here at Medford are similar. So, it is not too surprising that when I came along this Freeway, an hour after sundown, there was no wind while I took this photo.
…But the noise and speed and congestion of the traffic was insane!! There was no time I could snap a photo without speeding cars in it! ********************
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I Discover My First Vineyard, On the Way From Medford To Grants Pass.

…This Must Be the Start of the Narrator’s Wine Country.

…“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. Not too serious, but enough to lay us up for a while to get it replaced. Foolish to replace it, perhaps, when the cycle will be sold in a few days. .. Grants Pass looks like a big enough town to have a motorcycle place open the next morning …. ” (Cont. Next)

Two miles West of Gold Hill, OR. The “loud, clanking noise“ and the “chain guard …. all torn up“ are to increase reader tension. This is our warning of events to come! ********************
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