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"Dillard's failure to allow for her readers' response...is the primary shortcoming of FOR THE TIME BEING. I would call it a failure of wit. Wit does not just mean humor, though here too there is a problem. I most often had trouble with Annie Dillard's prose when I thought she was trying to be darkly funny....[S]he--nobly, courageously and with the best of intentions--ultimately flounders."Dillard, Annie is the author of 'For the Time Being', published 1999 under ISBN 9780375403804 and ISBN 0375403809.
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