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A review by christinajcraig
Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard
5.0
Annie Dillard is a magician. Her writing is amazing. She combines religion with nature with philosophy with suffering with beauty with moths with salt with perception.
Here are some passages:
The god of today is a glacier. We live in his shifting crevasses, unheard.
We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
I deepen into a drop and see all that time contains, all the faces and deeps of the worlds and all the earth's contents, every landscape and room, everything living or made or fashioned, all past and future stars, and especially faces like the cells of everything, faces pouring past me talking...
Here are some passages:
The god of today is a glacier. We live in his shifting crevasses, unheard.
We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
I deepen into a drop and see all that time contains, all the faces and deeps of the worlds and all the earth's contents, every landscape and room, everything living or made or fashioned, all past and future stars, and especially faces like the cells of everything, faces pouring past me talking...