Twenty-Fifth Book
For The Time Being : Annie Dillard
Knopf : 1999
Bought at Symposia Bookstore for $3.00+
Recommended by Julie Shapiro

Started 4.12.05
Finished 4.15.05

The Line: "C.S. Lewis once noted—interestingly, salvifically—that the sum of human suffering is a purely mental accretion, the contemplation of which is futile because no one ever suffered it. That was a load off my mind" (84).

Why did I wait so
long to read Dillard? "Because
you're an idiot."
  ¶ 09:09