• I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

    Annie Dillard: I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
    Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.53, Canongate Books