A brief, humorous look at the life of a writer … or any person who finds themselves living a contemplative life. Dillard is hilarious and well worth the hundred pages.
I drink coffee in titrated doses. It was a tricky business, requiring the finely tuned judgment of a skilled anesthesiologist. There was a tiny range within which coffee was effective, short of which it was useless, and beyond which, fatal …
Further, writing sentences is difficult whatever their subject. It is no less difficult to write sentences in a recipe than sentences in Moby-Dick. So you might as well write Moby-Dick.
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