Abruptly, after three weeks with a blank horizon, land was there in front of us.
It is difficult not to see low tide as the exposed plane of the stalled imagination - undifferentiated, ringed by a blank horizon whose distance is hard to gauge.
By the 1840s, King writes, Odessa appeared to travelers as "a dreamlike city rising out of nothing, a surprising blip on the blank horizon formed by steppe, sea and sky".
Leo and Crystal share love and distrust, cozy dreams and blank horizons, and the sweatily oppressive glare of the Sunshine State steams up swampy menace, sticky lust, torpid thinking, and feral solitude.
"I do forget how little one person matters out here," Ms. Blunt said, lifting a hand from the steering wheel and sweeping it toward a blank prairie horizon that seemed to swallow Interstate 2, the two-lane that traverses northern Montana.
And the ones who lived stared at the blank, aspirin-white horizon, searching for the men who never came.
Steve continued to scrape the call, but the wind had blown the horizon blank and there was no sign of a bird.
One former scout, or literary associate, Robert Davenport, memorialized the process in a graffito he scrawled on the soon-to-be-demolished walls: "Dear Mr. Blank, Thank you for submitting Blank to Playwrights Horizons.
His footage sweeps round four screens, one on each wall: the wooden barracks, the bleached blank sky, the careening horizon, the snow, telegraph wires and trees.
cleanse their skin from the penetrating rays of the sun and cleanse their minds and render it like the landscape itself; white, blank, with an indistinguishable horizon".
I didn't consciously set out to find a rural home, but when my old band wrote our last record in a Sheffield warehouse, I found myself driving uphill to find a quiet place to work on lyrics and fell for the blank beauty of the horizons.
