Note to Jonathan:

And God-appointed Berkeley that proved all things a dream,
  That this pragmatical, preposterous pig of a world, its
              farrow that so solid seem,
Must vanish on the instant if the mind but change its theme.

--William Butler Yeats, "Blood and the Moon"

(Bishop Berkeley lived in Newport, RI for a few years, while planning his Atlantean school in Bermuda; he makes an appearance in the "Once in Paradise" chapter of Stubborn Grew.)