A large portion of my novel has to do with the prairies and I was hoping to draw inspiration from this place I had never been. I was right to assume one thing regarding one of the themes being insanity, that the flatness could drive some people insane. Shawn felt uneasy and I was bored, though the poker straight driving was a welcome change from Ontario roads. Among the constantly running trains, the crop dusters and strange birds flying by grain elevators, there is a stillness and beauty uninterrupted by countless visual distractions which make up our depth perception, no small forests or lakes, no distant mountains, only earth uninterrupted, the almost constant sun, the slight curve of the horizon. Far from the visual overload on the first leg of our journey which left us in a constant state of excitement, this leg, the road showed us the beauty in subtlety, the diversity in sameness.
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