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What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?

What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?

Annie Dillard
House, Skins, World
Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.45, Canongate Books

I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.

Annie Dillard
Sea, Skins, Dolphins
Annie Dillard (1989). “An American childhood”

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