Down for a new radio, to Ross Lake, and back up. Three days walking. Strange how unmoved this place leaves one; neither articulate or worshipful; rather the pressing need to look within and adjust the mechanism of perception.

-Snyder, Gary Sherman
  Earth House Hold,'Lookout's Journal, Crater Shan 28 July'.

There was a muddy centre before we breathed There was a myth before the myth began, Venerable and articulate and complete.

-Stevens,Wallace
  NotesToward A Supreme Fiction,'It Must BeAbstract'.