"I like insects for their stupidity. A paper wasp -- Polistes -- is fumbling at the stained-glass window on my right. I saw the same sight in the same spot last Sunday: Pssst! Idiot! Sweetheart! Go around by the door! I hope we seem as endearingly stupid to God -- bumbling down into lamps, running half-wit across the floor, banging for days at the hinge of an opened door."
Annie Dillard (1945--)
Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer
From Teaching a Stone to Talk
Annie Dillard (1945--)
Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer
From Teaching a Stone to Talk
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