"No -- the manuscript does not give me the yearning for the West that you thought it would -- You see my feeling is different --
You see -- I got my feeling alone -- it is one of the things that most satisfies my feeling of aloneness -- I even get a kind of ecstacy from the vast space -- feeling like death -- that is close kin to what the male can give me -- Still I have always enjoyed it most alone -- No one ever seems equal to the country as I feel it --"
-- Georgia O'Keeffe in a letter to Alfred Stieglitz, November 20, 1932 ("My Faraway One: Selected Letters, p. 663).