Moody and withdrawn, the lake unites a haunting loveliness to a raw desolateness.

Great Salt Lake is an ironical joke of nature - water that is itself more desert than a desert.

There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage.

У тебя... кислое настроение, потому что не получился там. в храме, разговор. А к такому настроению все дурацкие мысли и страхи клеятся..."
(Витька Мохов)

Authority figures always attract trouble

He tries to picture how it will end, with an empty baseball field, a dark factory, and then over a brook in a dirt road, he doesn’t know. He pictures a huge vacant field of cinders and his heart goes hollow.