As of today all of my books have officially arrived. I hope all of yours have too. Very excited to begin the readings, and to write posts that are of some substance. However, today is not that day, because I have just received them all, and there remains less than an hour before class. I can, however, offer a simple anecdote regarding blogs in general.

I have a friend, and a lovely friend at that, about whom I wrote my first blog post last year in Shakespeare. Her name is Alli, and she is a very intelligent girl, but as I mentioned a year ago, she has a firm belief that people read too much into literature. That being the case, she just reposted my old post about her on facebook, claiming that it is a falsified report that makes her seem stupid. It is and it kind of does, but I'm sure she'll get over that eventually.

Anyway, Alli is currently at school in New Zealand, so I can't write any true stories about her. But I can write a blog post imagining what the falsified character of Alli would say about Annie Dillard. But First I would like to hear what you all think my fictionalized friend Alli would say. That is, what would the skeptic, the disavower of the humanities have to say about Annie Dillard?