As the debate rages over saving the Cape Cod landscape Edward Hopper painted, Verlyn Klinkenborg finds it all a little odd. “I believe in protecting open land on almost any pretext and surely the dunes of South Truro deserve to be protected because they are part of the larger ecosystem of the Cape Cod National Seashore. What puzzles me is the idea of the Hopper landscape. The landscape Hopper saw, as an artist, is already protected. It exists only in his paintings, nowhere else.”