But it is also a massive shaggy dog story; a great empty bag; an enormous, wicked, gleeful cheat.
"There's a great empty highway out there called the Long Island Sound, and it's about time it was used again for commuting purposes," said Robert B. MacKay, the director of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities.
But head out west for an array of great, empty beaches and breaks for all levels.
Let's take a look at another great empty state that ticks all the boxes.
South of Esquel is Trevelin, where you enter, briefly, another Welsh-themed area, after which comes a lot of nada – the great empty spaces of central Patagonia.
In 134 Hadrian's aged rival, Julius Servianus, held the consular office for the third time, which was a great but empty honour, for the man was too old.
These great empty spaces, running from Paddington to Canary Wharf and beyond, will be fitted out for 200 metre-long trains carrying 1,500 passengers every five minutes.
If I were to trace my movements through the places I have lived, the lines on the map would repeat endlessly, darkening with habit and leaving great empty swaths.
More important, the edgeless fields of grisaille or colored atmosphere in which his enigmatic words hover evoke the infinite desert sky at dusk, the silver screen or simply Los Angeles's great empty overlighted noir-ness.
Two thousand miles west of the Pacific, 3,200 miles east of Moscow and south of nowhere, stranded in Russia's great empty quarter, the Siberian city feels as if it is being punished, in exile.
My skepticism feels like a trivial thing beside the mysterious psychic spaces the story opens up: the secret garden where Mary can grow to new life, the uncle with his stunted grieving, the cries of the lost boy-child that Mary hears at night in the great, empty house, though the servants swear that there's no one.
