BE: This has to echo (via loss) the famous ending of Great Gatsby, set on Long Island, of course.---"long Atlantic wilderness" and "terminal toehold"

[Mark Kohut]

it’s all converging here, all Long Island, the defense factories,
> the homicidal traffic, the history of Republican sin forever unremitted,
> the relentless suburbanizing, miles of mowed yards, contractor hardpan,
> beaverboard and asphalt shingling, treeless acres, all concentrating, all
> collapsing, into this terminal toehold before the long Atlantic
wilderness.”