Quote of the day

[hummingwolf]

...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 overwhlemingly 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.'

--Annie Dillard

Comments

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

For some reason, I can't sit down and read a whole book by her, though I've tried. Isolated paragraphs can simply blow me away, as this one does. (Another that comes to mind is the one of her going to church and saying that the worshipers should be issued life jackets, etc.) She's brilliant, but I can only handle little bits! Thanks for this one. It's wonderful.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Heh, I've never even tried reading a book by her. Maybe the next time I get to the library I'll see what they have of hers, if anything. I feel in love with this quote when I ran across it online while I was looking for something else.