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2 Robert Persig, "Cruising Blues and Their Cure," Esquire (May 1979), p. 65.

3 Tocqueville, Journey to America, p. 399.

4 Russ Anderson, "Watkins on the Columbia River: An Ascendancy of Abstraction," in Carleton Watkins: The Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon (Carmel, Calif.: The Friends of Photography, 1979).

5 Edward Weston, Daybooks (New York: Horizon Press, 1961), p.221.

6 Alan Watts, Nature, Man, and Woman (New York: Vintage Books, 1970), p. 51.