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Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Annie Dillard

Paperback | Pages: 177 pages

Rating: 4.2 | 4637 Users | 401 Reviews

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Original Title:	Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
ISBN:	0060915412 (ISBN13: 9780060915414)
Edition Language:	English

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Every time I read Annie Dillard I become more responsible. In general. Her words are purposeful, she addresses sorrow, beauty and terror with nouns and adjectives that, if you aren't careful, look like every other noun and adjective you have ever read. But this isn't so. There is not a wasted syllable. Read about the Deer at Provenance, a story about a young fawn tied to a tree, resigning to the despair of its own death, and the people that circle around, quietly, and watch. And then read how she balances words like 'slender' with 'violence'. Ah! And then Expedition to the Pole! Never has absurdity and wisdom come together so well in American essay than here. The images and thoughts on church, human folly, polar bears and the unknown spin like a fever dream and burn like postmodern prophecy. Woo!

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Title	:	Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Author	:	Annie Dillard
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Perennial Library
Pages	:	Pages: 177 pages
Published	:	1988 by Harper & Row, Publishers (first published October 13th 1982)
Categories	:	Writing. Essays. Nonfiction. Environment. Nature. Autobiography. Memoir. Philosophy. Spirituality

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Wholly unexpected and completely amazing. I see the reviews of my fellow Goodreaders and I can echo them, Dillard is an artist and her words both perplexed and thrilled me (the polar expedition histories interspersed with detailed observations about the eclectic praise band at her church - finally meshing together with a trippy baby christening on an arctic ice flow??) WOW. She made me laugh out loud. It is madness to wear a ladies straw hat and velvet hats to church - we should all be wearing

3.5 starsI wanted to like this more than l did. I think I'll try another book by Annie Dillard, because I have heard such good things of her. Maybe I was just reading this at the wrong time.

from AN EXPEDITION TO THE POLE:God does not demand that we give up our personal dignity, that we throw in our lot with random people, that we lose ourselves and turn from all that is not him. God needs nothing, asks nothing, and demands nothing, like the stars. It is a life with God which demands these things.Experiences has taught the race that if knowledge of God is the end, then these habits of life are not the means but the condition in which the means operates. You do not have to do these

Reading Dillard is like watching a figure skater. You don't really understand or appreciate what you've just experienced until you try to walk across an icy sidewalk.

Some travel as tourists. Annie Dillard roams the earth an explorer. In Teaching A Stone to Talk she invites the reader into her expeditions and encounters with creatures, both human and animal, but also inanimate ones, like stones.From Puget Sound to the Galapagos Island, the author uses microscope, telescope and polarized sunglasses to examine her world. I learned something about an expedition to the South Pole through her eyes, a deer caught in more than headlights and a man named Larry who,

Adventurous collection of essays, generally on the intersection of God, humans, and nature. I could wish the whole book more unified, and more descriptively personal (like An American Childhood) than spiritually/emotionally so. But she writes so musically well that I enjoy every piece, no matter how strange or discordant the tune. Favorites: "The Deer at Providencia" and "On a Hill Far Away."

This is a book of essays: some reflective, mostly descriptive. Sometimes I was reading and thinking, "What the hell is she talking about?" But, it's worth it to keep reading because there are phrases and paragraphs that are just golden:From "Total Eclipse": "The mindthe culturehas two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel."From "An Expedition to the Pole": "It all seems a pit at first, for I have overcome a fiercely anti-Catholic upbringing in order to