Reading a book flap...and later...and later...

"In 1974 Annie Dillard published Pilgrim At Tinker Creek, a mystical excursion into the natural world that established her among the first rank of American writers. Her book received the Pulitzer Prize, and the critics compared her writing to Herman Melville. In 1975 Dillard took up residence on an island in the Puget Sound..."
Later--Reading passages in Holy the Firm and feeling high amounts of anxiety, such as one might feel as a teenager on drugs, & a sense of some kind of collective memory about religious persecution of women. Staring at a large insect and watching it crawl under the bed and into the closet.
Later--Looking over the book and not re-experiencing that anxiety at all. Instead, just wanting to remember the waitress at "Casa Del Sol" on the waterfront, who walked out at low tide in the evening and set down a plate of food for the seagulls.