[bokononon]

Thanks, I'll read that tonight.

Another work by Annie Dillard, 'The Force that Drives the Flower' was also published in the Atlantic and it's a pleasure to read (YMMV):

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1973/11/the-for...

'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek', the book it was excerpted from, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1975.