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...Reader, beware of this deceptive girl, mouthing her piety about "the secret of seeing" being "the pearl of great price," modestly insisting, "I am no scientist. I explore the neighborhood." Here is no gentle romantic twirling a buttercup, no graceful inscriber of 365 inspirational prose poems. As she guides the attention to a muskrat, to a monarch butterfly, a heron or a coot, Miss Dillard is stalking the reader as surely as any predator stalks its game...
...read slowly and repeatedly, calmly and with consideration. That they have been written that way is evident in the confidence which glows through almost every sentence. Grace Paley's stories teach patience, and they demand a little bit of it--as a kind of collateral pledge--from the reader who would really learn from them...
Even if Matthews is guiding us by the light of what he has learned, ultimately he leaves the question with the reader--unanswered. The most revealing information he has to offer is anecdotal. One incident in particular presents a disenchanting picture to those who might not be unwilling to think Eliot a saint...
...book also reveals the author as a person of courage in tragic and trying circumstances. She refers to Lindbergh as "Charles" or as "C." Still, an attentive reader learns a good deal about one of the enduring marital relationships of the century. There came a moment when, almost four years after the kidnaping, a earful of news photographers forced the limousine taking 3-year-old Jon home from school to the curb, then flashed bulbs into his terrified face. It was only a month after Anne had taken an apartment in New York. But Lindbergh abruptly decided they must quit...
...matter-of-fact style, Moorhouse tells what it is like to cope with temperatures that soar past 130° by day and drop below freezing at night. He describes the stunning beauty of desert sunsets and the soporific, swaying movement of the camel. He can make a reader comfortably fixed with a Scotch in his hand share the blessed glee of finding brackish water dotted with camel dung that is worth more than gold or oil in a sea of sand...