The land of "pretty soon."

People often refer to Santa Fe as "the land of manana," where the custom is to take things as they come, to move slowly. But I like what Charles F. Lummis said in 1893, in The Land of Poco Tiempo:

Sun, silence, and adobe--that is New Mexico in three words....It is the Great American Mystery--the National Rip Van Winkle--the United States which is NOT United States. Here is the land of poco tiempo--the home of "Pretty Soon." Why hurry with the hurrying world? The "Pretty Soon" of New Spain is better than the "Now! Now!" of the haggard States. The opiate sun soothes to rest, the adobe is made to lean against, the hush of the day-long noon would not be broken.