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A Solemn Pleasure
A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write | Melissa Pritchard
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"In A Solemn Pleasure, Melissa Pritchard presents an undeniable case for both the power of language and the nurturing constancy of the writing life. This is nonfiction vividly engaged with the world, encompassing the author's journeys into the deeply interior imaginative life required to write fiction, a search for the lost legacy of American literature as embodied by Walt Whitman, reports from Afghanistan while embedded with a young female GI, tales of travels with Ethiopian tribes, and the heartrendingstory of her informally adopted son William, a former Sudanese child slave. Pritchard's passion for writing and storytelling educates, honors, and inspires"--
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The earth is made of the dust of creatures who lived before. We walk carelessly upon the dead, the world a rounded grave. - it's pretty grave feelings.

btfw But so beautifully written. 7y
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We are such stuff as dreams are made on...

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The book for someone who wants to clear up his/her mind and move on with the good company of books.