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Bathroom lurkers
I would hope that my own detection/perception of insects is not completely juvenile, especially in comparison to Annie Dillard’s. I just have to wonder: what draws insects into man-made construc… more →
ENG 350: Nature Writers
I Can Be Taught: "Annie Dillard and the Writing Life"
Shedrick wrote 1 week ago: Today’s The Morning News published this essay by the novelist Alexander Chee on his experience … more →
Looking Closer
Abby wrote 2 weeks ago: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Pilgrim at Tinker Creek By Annie Dillard I think this is the first book I … more →
Awful Nearness to Nature
Sean Meehan wrote 3 weeks ago: Our relationship to nature is awful–or it should be. Emerson writes in “Poetry and Imagi … more →
Kilgore K-9 makes ‘pot’ bust
PositiveLeo wrote 1 month ago: Kilgore’s canine officers helped to nab a Huntsville man with more than 160 pounds of pot during a D … more →
Talking Over the Left
Sean Meehan wrote 1 month ago: In reading “A House on the Island,” the piece about living on Tangier by Anne Hughes Jan … more →
Emerson: double consciousness
Sean Meehan wrote 1 month ago: At the end of “Fate,” Emerson–for all his resistance to providing final answers, r … more →
Dillard's Emerson
Sean Meehan wrote 1 month ago: Annie Dillard is best known as a nature writer. Her first book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) looks … more →
Annie Dillard's Exuberance
Sean Meehan wrote 2 months ago: What do you make of Dillard’s focus and repeated use of the language of “extravagance … more →
Annie Dillard: Photographic Seeing
Sean Meehan wrote 2 months ago: Dillard uses in her writing lots of figures (metaphors, metonyms, similes) for meditating on what sh … more →
bathroom lurkers
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mkowal11 wrote 2 months ago: I would hope that my own detection/perception of insects is not completely juvenile, especially in c … more →
Thoughts on the Pine Island Paradox
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rkrech12 wrote 3 months ago: When I started reading the Pine Island Paradox, I didn’t know what to expect in terms of her writing … more →
Dillard/Moore and Religion
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kfeser wrote 3 months ago: So, we got started on a little debate in class yesterday about how we felt about Annie Dillard, but … more →
ejoseph10 wrote 3 months ago: A few weeks ago around three AM, I followed my friends as they went on their way to perform a tradit … more →
Innocence of Thought
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jpeota12 wrote 3 months ago: All of the authors we’ve read so far have written fondly about the innocence of children and their s … more →
Possible Perception
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scotchbrandtape wrote 3 months ago: The last couple of classes we have been discussing Annie Dillard’s ideas of perception and wha … more →
Innocence in Dillard
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mrohloff350 wrote 3 months ago: I found myself looking at the idea of innocence in nature, particularly Dillard’s thoughts on … more →
Sustaining Nature's Beauty
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ebrou wrote 3 months ago: Annie Dillard’s enduring awareness of and interest in nature astounds me. It’s interesti … more →
red stumps
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mkowal11 wrote 3 months ago: I hope this isn’t regressing too much to a passage that our furious block-schedule has caused … more →
Dillard, and finding a place
whatcher12 wrote 3 months ago: For me, finding a place is just a matter of narrowing it down. I feel like I hold a connection to m … more →
