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She remarks somewhere, ''I am interested in Alice mainly when she eats the cooky that makes her smaller, I would pare myself or be pared so that I too might pass through the merest crack, a gap I know is there in the sky. I am looking just now for the cooky.''
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Annie Dillard wrote that she is interested in Alice when she eats the cookie that makes her smaller and that she is looking for that cookie herself.
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Claim Maker
Eudora Welty
Context Type
Book Review
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{
    "publication": "The New York Times",
    "quoted_person": "Annie Dillard"
}
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Literature Annie Dillard Alice in Wonderland
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September 17, 2026 at 8:12 PM (3 weeks ago)
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September 17, 2026 at 8:12 PM (3 weeks ago)

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https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/28/specials/dillard-tinker.html

Eudora Welty reviews Annie Dillard's 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,' a book described as a 'meditation on seeing.' Welty praises Dillard's sense of wonder and vivid descriptions of nature, but questions the book's overall coherence and Dillard's self-contained perspective.

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