For the Time Being
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (993 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004UDHMCW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 343 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Birth, Clouds, and Numbers Jayne P. Bowers I've been procrastinating the review of this book, not because I didn't like it but rather because I enjoyed this marvelous work so much that I knew I couldn't do it justice. It's that good! Truly, I've never read anything quite like it.For The Time Being is educational, interesting, and quite thought-provoking. Dillard begins the book with a description of two bird-headed dwarfs, and then she jumps to a passage from the Talmud about a blessing said whe. "Building a foundation of stories that leads to the profound" according to S.Z. M.. For the first part of this book, I read with interest, the seeming disconnected topics:Birth, Sand, Clouds, China, Encounters, Numbers, Israel, Thinkers, Evil, Now.I read because I know from her early work how she will blend the information and her thoughts about it into something that sits on you and resonates for days afterwards. I read because I want to see how she does it. I am always floored by the way she mixes deep thoughts with levity.I am not d. Julie Kenward said An Annie Dillard Book Never Disappoints. As always, Annie Dillard weaves her subjects into an incredible tapestry. I found myself wrapped up in the odd nature of her chosen topics and then she'd come along and throw down a line that would shake my heart to its core.There are lots of mini-topics in this book - and plenty of fascinating facts - but the one I walked away with was this: What is a single life worth and are all lives worth the saving?" My mind is still bouncing back to that topic lo
With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest-and often darkest-corners.Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images: pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birth defects; ten thousand terra-cotta figures fashioned for a Chinese emperor in place of the human court that might have followed him into death; the paleontologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin crossing the Gobi Desert; the dizzying variety of clouds. From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-wi