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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a 1974 nonfiction narrative book by American author Annie Dillard. Told from a first-person point of view, the book details an unnamed narrator's explorations near her home, and various contemplations on nature and life. The title refers to Tinker Creek, which is outside Roanoke in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Dillard began writing Pilgrim in the spring of 1973, using her personal journals as inspiration. Separated into four sections that signify each of the seasons, the narrative takes place over the period of one year.
“These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.”
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“The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?”
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“Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.”
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“I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.”
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“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”
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“We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence…”
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"The Horns of the Altar", pp. 237–238
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1976)
