[MD] What is an analogy?

[Ron Kulp]

 [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?


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[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.)


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