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Original Title:	For the Time Being
ISBN:	0375703470 (ISBN13: 9780375703478)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2000)

For the Time Being

Annie Dillard

Paperback | Pages: 205 pages

Rating: 4.16 | 3418 Users | 425 Reviews

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Title	:	For the Time Being
Author	:	Annie Dillard
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 205 pages
Published	:	February 8th 2000 by Vintage (first published March 1st 1999)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Philosophy. Spirituality. Religion. Environment. Nature. Literature

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"Beautifully written and delightfully strange--. As earthy as it is sublime, For the Time Being is, in the truest sense, an eye- opener."--Daily News

From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being, her most profound narrative to date. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest--and often darkest--corners.

Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images: pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birth defects; ten thousand terra-cotta figures fashioned for a Chinese emperor in place of the human court that might have followed him into death; the paleontologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin crossing the Gobi Desert; the dizzying variety of clouds. Vivid, eloquent, haunting, For the Time Being evokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly and troublingly beyond our understanding.

"Stimulating, humbling, original--. [Dillard] illuminate[s] the human perspective of the world, past, present and future, and the individual's relatively inconsequential but ever so unique place in it."--Rocky Mountain News

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Well... juicy bits here and there, but the choppy narrative is challenging. But challenging is good! OK, then, at times it's more than challenging; it stretches credulity and feels contrived or precious or, worse, like paint splattered on a canvas. "Find meaning, or call my bluff!" the artist taunts. "Fuck off, this is shit, this isn't honest!" I yell back.That said, there are good bits, lovely bits. Much of the natural description, and the spiritual meditations, and most of the historical

I'm really not ready to write about this revelatory little book, so suffice it to say that I checked it out of the library and knew by page 7 that I needed my own copy to mark and mark and mark and make mine. I suspect I'll be coming back to this book for years.Dillard: There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been: a people busy and powerful, knowledgeable, ambivalent, important, fearful, and

This is a book made up of fragments of history and philosophy, random facts about sand and clouds, and fractured narratives. But it is more than that, too, as Annie Dillard takes these broken elements and tries to weave them together. (You could think of it as a literary version of the Tibetan sand mandala).She takes on a bevy of big topics: life and death, permanence and eternity, individuality in the midst of billions, and whether God is responsible for calamity. There are no easy answers to

Very humbling. It's hard to make readers feel so small while simultaneously making life so meaningful, but Annie Dillard does it here.

The closer we grow to death, the more closely we follow the news.Such 'true dat' reflections from Anne Dillard endeared me to this book. Filled with short paragraphs on birth, death, God, good, and evil, I became somewhat addicted to each page. If we could break our book collections into wine comparisons, this volume would land in the Chianti section...medium-bodied with high acidity.This is where they wash the newborns like dishes.Lest one think Dillard just rambles on like a Zeppelin song, she

"There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been: a people busy and powerful, knowledgeable, ambivalent, important, fearful, and self-aware; a people who scheme, promote, deceive, and conquer; who pray for their loved ones, and long to flee misery and skip death. It is a weakening and discoloring idea, that rustic people knew God personally once upon a time--or even knew selflessness or courage or

About 20 years ago, I met a guy -- a writer whose opinions I respected, even admired -- whose response to Annie Dillard's writing took me completely by surprise. He hated it. As I recall, he used words like "pretentious," "overrated," and "pretty" (that last may have had quotation marks of its own around it).Given that I was in mid-swoon at the time from my first exposure to her work, I couldn't really muster a defense other than of the to-each-his-own sort. Since that time, though, as a