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She concludes her book by saying, ''And then you walk fearlesslylike the monk on the road who knows precisely how vulnerable he is, who takes no comfort among death-forgetting men, and who carries his... 1.000

👤 Eudora Welty 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Annie Dillard's book concludes with a specific passage about a monk, a giant water bug, and walking with feet that say 'Glory' and 'Amen'.

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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... 1.000

👤 Eudora Welty 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature , Annie Dillard , Alice in Wonderland

Simplified: 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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Her account of the polyphemus moth -- first in its cocoon, then emerging, then crawling away in the presence of a roomful of schoolchildren. 1.000

👤 Eudora Welty 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Fact: "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" contains an account of a polyphemus moth emerging from its cocoon in the presence of schoolchildren.

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She takes us through a flood on Tinker Creek and I think she sees truly when she says: ''Tinker Creek is out of its four-foot banks. It looks like somebody else's creek that has usurped or eaten our c... 1.000

👤 Eudora Welty 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Fact: In her book, Annie Dillard describes a flood on Tinker Creek, which she says looked "like a blacksnake caught in a kitchen drawer."

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She walks out into the flood on a wall and on the return trip meets a young boy who's going in the opposite direction. ''The wall is one brick wide; we can't pass. So we clasp hands and lean out backw... 1.000

👤 Eudora Welty 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Fact: In "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," the author and a boy pass each other on a one-brick-wide wall during a flood by clasping hands and leaning out ove...

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Annie Dillard is the only person in her book, substantially the only one in her world; I recall no outside human speech coming to break the long soliloquy of the author. 1.000

👤 Eudora Welty 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Fact: According to the reviewer, Annie Dillard is substantially the only person in her book, with no other human speech included.

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Her account of the migration of the monarch butterflies, which makes the reader see what they looked like coming, how they went over, what they left behind them, what the author learned from the whole... 1.000

👤 Eudora Welty 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Fact: "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" includes an account of the migration of monarch butterflies.

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She copied long passages into her journal, and many excerpts appear in her book -- not only from Thoreau, Fabre, Darwin and so on, but from novelists, artists. 1.000

👤 Eudora Welty 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Annie Dillard's book contains many excerpts from authors such as Thoreau, Fabre, and Darwin.

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A blind child the author happened to read about saw for the first time after cataracts had been removed from her eyes. ''When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who... 1.000

👤 Eudora Welty 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Fact: Annie Dillard's book recounts a story of a formerly blind child who, after cataract surgery, saw "the tree with lights in it."

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In ''Pilgrim at Tinker Creek'' she offers ''what Thoreau called 'a meteorological journal of the mind.''' 1.000

👤 Eudora Welty 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Fact: Annie Dillard's book "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" is described as offering "a meteorological journal of the mind," a phrase attributed to Thoreau.

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''I am no scientist,'' says Annie Dillard, ''but a poet and a walker with a background in theology and a penchant for quirky facts.'' 1.000

👤 Eudora Welty 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Statement: Annie Dillard describes herself in her book as "a poet and a walker with a background in theology and a penchant for quirky facts," not a s...

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she will spend her days in solitude tramping the Roanoke creek banks and the Blue Ridge mountainside in search of herself. 1.000

👤 Eudora Welty 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Fact: The narrative of "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" involves Annie Dillard tramping the Roanoke creek banks and the Blue Ridge mountainside.

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''What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.'' 1.000

👤 Eudora Welty 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Statement: Annie Dillard defines innocence in her book as "the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object."

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Two of these essays (‘‘Recalling Niels Bohr’’ and ‘‘Lonesome, With Snails’’) revolve around jokes — a favorite subject of Dillard’s. 1.000

👤 Sam Anderson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Two of Annie Dillard's essays, 'Recalling Niels Bohr' and 'Lonesome, With Snails', are about jokes.

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One of these essays ends, out of nowhere, with a brief but bold artistic manifesto. ‘‘Possible books abound; I’d rather write an impossible page.’’ 1.000

👤 Sam Anderson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: One of Annie Dillard's essays published in the magazine ends with the line, 'Possible books abound; I’d rather write an impossible page.'

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In ‘‘An American Childhood,’’ her classic memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh, Dillard describes life with her parents as a long and rigorous apprenticeship of wisecracking. 1.000

👤 Sam Anderson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biography , Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Annie Dillard's memoir 'An American Childhood' is about her growing up in Pittsburgh.

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‘‘Pilgrim’’ won the Pulitzer Prize and unleashed upon the world Dillard’s radical style: prose right on the border of poetry, dense with dazzling effects — strong metaphors, heavy rhythms, bold verbs,... 1.000

👤 Sam Anderson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Awards , Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Annie Dillard's book 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek' won the Pulitzer Prize.

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They have been revised multiple times over multiple decades, because Dillard is always revising, and then re-revising. 1.000

👤 Sam Anderson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Publishing , Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: The three early essays by Annie Dillard published in the magazine have been revised multiple times over several decades.

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You will find, in the following pages, a small but rare bloom of Annie Dillard’s fireworks: three early essays, all short and characteristically strange, all appearing for the first time in this form. 1.000

👤 Sam Anderson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Publishing , Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: The New York Times Magazine published three of Annie Dillard's early essays appearing for the first time in their current form.

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This month, she publishes ‘‘The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New,’’ a collection of pieces that spans her entire variegated career. 1.000

👤 Sam Anderson 📋 News Article 🏷️ Publishing , Literature , Annie Dillard

Simplified: Annie Dillard published 'The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New' in March 2016.

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