For audio version click here Early in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard describes looking carefully at leaves in mid-summer. Most of them had holes or jagged edges where they had been eaten. She remarked that all of us have had pieces chomped out; all of the living carry wounds. Moonrise Kingdom’s major characters, adults and children, have all been beaten up and dented. None are noble although some do noble deeds. All of them are failures in profound ways, but many rise to acts of genuine […]
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