That point being, as I think about it, it accumulates in my mind as an extravagance of minutiae. The sheer fringe and network of detail assumes primary importance. That there are so many details seems to be the most important and visible fact about the creation
(Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, pg. 130).
This is the truth of the pervading intricacy of the world’s detail: the creation is not a study, a roughed-in sketch; it is supremely, meticulously created, created abundantly, extravagantly, and in fine
(Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, pg. 136).
The creator creates. He creates everything and anything.
The
creator loves pizzazz
(Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, pgs. 138, 139).
The universe was not made
in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest (Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, pg. 275).
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