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Living by Fiction
by Annie Dillard
Sept. 18, 2019 - Sept. 21, 2019 (read)

Dillard, A. (2000). Living by Fiction. Harper Perennial.


Harper Perennial, 2000. 192 pages. Paperback. 9780060915445

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p.104
weft »
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(noun) a filling thread or yarn in weaving / (nou…
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empyrean »
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(adjective) empyreal / (noun) the highest heaven …
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(adjective) former, sometime (from Latin)
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apogee »
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(noun) the point in the orbit of an object (as a …
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p.170
the rim of knowledge where language falters
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As symbol, or as the structuring of symbols, art …
p.161
like that of a mastered grief or longing
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The story contains no trace of that bundle of bia…
p.155
what lovely, solid bricks they make
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All this is a paradoxical situation for intellect…
p.154
we are not interested in simple allegory
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Complexity, subtlety, and breadth are the virtues…
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the novelist is interested in his neighbors
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The writer—to continue pro hominem —is the world’…

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