“The creator goes off on one wild, specific tangent after another, or
millions simultaneously, with an exuberance that would seem to be
unwarranted, and with an abandoned energy sprung from an unfathomable
font. What is going on here? The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip,
the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of
sunlighted minnows, is not that it all fits together like clockwork -
for it doesn't, particularly, not even inside the goldfish bowl... but
that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in
such a free fringed tangle. Freedom is the world's water and weather,
the world's nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator
loves pizzazz.”
Annie Dillard (source not supplied)
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