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    Deserted 1898
    Deserted 1898
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    Deserted 1898

    By Edward Bellamy

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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    Edward Bellamy

    Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel Looking Backward.

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      Deserted 1898 - Edward Bellamy

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      Title: Deserted

             1898

      Author: Edward Bellamy

      Release Date: September 21, 2007 [EBook #22714]

      Last Updated: December 17, 2012

      Language: English

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      DESERTED

      By Edward Bellamy

      1898

      What a glorious, all-satisfying country this Nevada desert would be, if one were only all eyes, and had no need of food, drink, and shelter! Would n't it, Miss Dwyer? Do you know, I 've no doubt that this is the true location of heaven. You see, the lack of water and vegetation would be no inconvenience to spirits, while the magnificent scenery and the cloudless sky would be just the thing to make them thrive.

      But what I can't get over, responded the young lady addressed, is that these alkali plains, which have been described as so dreary and uninteresting, should prove to be in reality one of the most wonderfully impressive and beautiful regions in the world. What awful fibbers, or what awfully dull people, they must have been whose descriptions have so misled the public! It is perfectly unaccountable. Here I expected to doze all the way across the desert, while in fact I 've grudged my eyes time enough to wink ever since I left my berth this morning.

      The trouble is, replied her companion, that persons in search of the picturesque, or with much eye for it, are rare travelers along this route. The people responsible for the descriptions you complain of are thrifty businessmen, with no idea that there can be any possible attraction in a country where crops can't be raised, timber cut, or ore dug up. For my part, I thank the Lord for the beautiful barrenness that has consecrated this great region to loneliness. Here there will always be a chance to get out of sight and sound of the swarming millions who have already left scarcely standing-room for a man in the East. I wouldn't give much for a country where there are no wildernesses left.

      But I really think it is rather hard to say in just what the beauty of the desert consists, said Miss Dwyer. "It is so simple. I scribbled two pages of description in my note-book this morning, but when I read them over, and then looked out of the window, I tore them up. I think the wonderfully fine, clear, brilliant air transfigures the landscape and makes it something that must be seen and can't be told. After seeing how this air makes the ugly

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