Annie Dillard is my besty!

So, I've read for the first time, and fallen in love, with Annie Dillard this semester. I have been reading a few of her books in my nonfiction literature class. She is just fantastic. Any of you who are unfamiliar, I urge you to read her work. I am reading Pilgrim at Tinker Creek right now, for which she won a Pulitzer prize at the age of 29. Here is a little taste of it:

"I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wandering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty beats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them, under the wind-rent clouds, upstream and down. Simone Weil says simply, 'Let us love the country of here below. It is real; it offers resistance to love (P. 232-233).'"

Gees, pretty remarkable right? Ooohhh it gives me absolute literary chills. :) That's about it for today, I guess. I just had to rave about her for a sec.