![]() ![]() It is mesmerizing as well because the infinite expanse of surface makes for little friction and engenders dreams of limitlessness. This unnaturally natural combination is paradoxically mesmerizing because its stark beauty resists human habitation and settlement. As with the oceans, the sea of salt-the leftovers of water-seems to carry these stony icebergs on shimmering waves of air, as brown rock, white salt, and blue sky meld into a color scheme all the more bedazzling because of its unnaturally natural combination. "Out there," on a horizon that is as infinite as it is surreal, the vanishing point of land and sky never meets, which is why the mountain ranges surrounding the Salt Flats often appear floating in the air. Essentially a hard and solid salt deposit, the thick surface is inhospitable to plant life and nearly congruous with the curvature of the Earth. The Bonneville Salt Flats are a remnant of the prehistoric Lake Bonneville, encompassing roughly a 160-square-mile expanse in northwestern Utah. Literary Case Studies in the New Media Ecology." He is an old-fashioned photographer and, though not a speed demon himself, enjoys the ascetic beauty of the Salt Flats and of streamlined design. Currently, he is at work on a book tentatively entitled "Mediating Narrative. ![]() He is the co-editor of Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology (with Joseph Tabbi, Cornell UP, 1997), the co-translator of Friedrich Kittler’s Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (with Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Stanford UP, 1999), and the author of numerous essays on American and British fiction. Michael Wutz (PhD, Emory University) teaches in the English Department at Weber State University and is the editor of Weber. Michael Wutz From Salt to Struts and Flats to Fenders-An Unnaturally Natural Combination ![]()
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