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Jon Olav Nesvold / Stringer / Getty Annie Dillard's Classic Essay: 'Total Eclipse'
“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.”
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The Force That Drives the Flower
Observing an especially fertile growing season outside her home in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the poet and essayist Annie Dillard reflects on the life cycle and the universal impulse to grow and reproduce.
