Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - A response journal
Created for TeachersFirst by Brenda Walton, Ed.D.
Chapter 8 - Intricacy
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On page 134 Dillard writes:
"I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me,
neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly
apt to approach some innocent at a gathering and, like the ancient mariner,
fix him with a wild, glitt'ring eye and say, "Do you know that
in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two
hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?" The poor wretch flees.
I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life. I seem to possess
an organ that others lack, a sort of trivia machine."
Dillard wryly notes her penchant for details, information, facts, ideas--
"trivia" perhaps. She loves strange and bizarre facts-- all
a part of the intricacy which is the subject of this chapter.
Written response # 11 Internet research
On
page 138 Dillard mentions three strange creatures-"-hagfish, platypuses,
lizard like pangolins." Use the Internet to research a "strange
creature" either real or imaginary. What's its place in nature? Write
a page or so reaction to your findings. Attach the Internet info to your
work and be ready to share.
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