[Arlo] I hear ya. Here in Central Pennsylvania I'm in love with the mountains, especially the largely unpopulated regions to the North. I lived in Chicago for a while, with the Lake being the only thing that kept me from going flat-crazy.
[X] Arlo, Perhaps we can join up for a ride sometime, I live near the central pa area I have a '75 FX. I usually tour The susquahanna every spring with a buddy of mine. You ever tour route 6 thru wellsborough? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ARLO J BENSINGER JR Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 3:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MD] What is an analogy? [SA] I live in a hilly woodsy region. At the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. So, not too far west it gets pretty flat. Many people around here say how boring the flatland is to the west. What subtlies in the land would the flatlanders notice about flatland that I don't readily notice? [Arlo] I hear ya. Here in Central Pennsylvania I'm in love with the mountains, especially the largely unpopulated regions to the North. I lived in Chicago for a while, with the Lake being the only thing that kept me from going flat-crazy. Pirsig talks about this briefly in ZMM. "Memories of car trips across them are always of flatness and great emptiness as far as you can see, extreme monotony and boredom as you drive for hour after hour, getting nowhere, wondering how long this is going to last without a turn in the road, without a change in the land going on and on to the horizon." "Hard country" is how Pirsig referred to the Dakotas. I read a few years back an intriguing book called "Dakota, A Spiritual Geography" by Kathleen Norris. In it she talks about relocating to a small prairie town, her initial misgivings and how she eventually came to not only love, but embrace, life on the flatlands. In Neil Peart's motorcycle travelogue, "Ghost Rider", he describes crossing Manitoba and Saskatchewan along Canada Highway 1 and The Yellowhead Highway. As with Pirsig's crossing the Dakota's, Peart describes the flat emptiness broken only by grain elevators, but also with a nod to a unique beauty that arises from such seemingly barren places. (I've never been to Manitoba or Saskatchewan, but one of these years that's going to change, when I make out for the Northern Rockies Lodge and Muncho Lake (http://www.northern-rockies-lodge.com/), one of Peart's stops on his way to the Inuvik in the Arctic Circle.) moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
