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Whenever a work's structure is intentionally one of its own themes, another of its themes is art.

— Annie Dillard Ted Nelson in Literary Machines (1982)

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There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

Holy the Firm (1977)

For most creatures, being parasitized is a way of life—if you call that living.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1976)

No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1976)

The intricacy of Ellery and aphids multiplied mindlessly into tons and light-years is more than extravagance; it is holocaust, parody, glut.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974)

At first the amoebae look like muscae volitantes, those curled moving spots you seem to see in your eyes when you stare at a distant wall. Then I see the amoebae as drops of water congealed, blusish, translucent, like chips of sky in the bowl.

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