[lit-ideas] Re: Found Poetry (Dillard)

John Wager wrote:

> Is it in "Holy the Firm" that Dillard describes watching a solar eclipse
> from the top of a moutain in Washington?  It's where she describes
> looking DOWN at the eastern plains below her, and seeing the darkness of
> half the world rushing at her at about 5,000 miles per hour.

It's in _Teaching A Stone To Talk_, in the essay entitled "Total Eclipse." 
Dillard writes of: "the wall of dark shadow . . . speeding at us. We no 
sooner saw it than it was upon us, like thunder. . . . This was the universe 
about which we have read so much and never before felt: the universe as a 
clockwork of loose spheres flung at stupefying, unauthorized speeds. How 
could anything moving so fast not crash, not veer from its orbit amok like a 
car out of control on a turn?"

"Living Like Weasels", a great favorite of mine, is also part of that 
collection. Amazingly, it is available at this site - hope it is accurately 
transcribed:

http://www.courses.vcu.edu/ENG200-lad/dillard.htm

Best, MN 


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