This Month's Selection Is:The Observable World
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"When Annie Dillard tells us that, "You have to fling yourself at what you're doing, you have to point yourself, forget yourself, aim, dive" she's telling us the words she lives by and probably the wholehearted approach she has to everything including her writing. This, no doubt, is what has made her successful. "I was cherishing my excitement," and realized that the man whose car they snowballed, cherished it too. "The point was that he had chased us passionately without giving up..."I wanted the glory to last forever." That passionate pursuit is what she values. "I would have died happy for nothing since has required so much of me..." She even calls their pursuer, "that sainted...man."
Dillard's description of obstacles in the chase add speed and excitement to her narrative: "over picket fences, through thorny hedges, between houses, around garbage cans, across streets.: The irony of the story is that even though they knew what they did was wrong and the man knew it too, they all loved "every sliding joyous step." -Eileen Curran-Kondrad |
"As you read the story it was as though you were there. The excitement! The terror!
The experience of giving it one’s all, nothing held back. No fear of punishment, just delight in the glory of the victor. The wow factor of the driver’s persistence! A kid’s experience of an everyday adventure. Exhilarating!!!" -Donna W. From Hill
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