Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Annie Dillard: Where I Am

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I am as passionately interested in where I am as is a lone sailor sans sextant in a ketch on the open ocean. What else is he supposed to be thinking about?

--Annie Dillard, from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

2 comments:

  1. Oh dear, now you make me want to tell the story about the balloonist sans sextant :-)

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  2. Yikes--that sounds like it didn't end well!

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