The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.

The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.

Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in which all events are eternally embodied and still have their meaningful flash of supernormal or extra - sensory perception, and glimpse of something that happened long ago in our linear time.