Nevertheless Klam does drop clues, including this crisp sentence: «This place had been known at one time or another for whale hunting, Portuguese immigrants, sand dunes, herring shoals, shipwrecks off the point, but also for a certain kind of seeker or desperate
kook, Puritans, dropouts, communists, frazzled intellectuals, painters from New York, experimental - theater types, alcoholic fishermen, sailors stationed
here between the wars, stubborn or demented individuals...