Emphasis Preaching Journal
The writer, Annie Dillard, tells...
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The writer, Annie Dillard, tells in The Writing Life of an event that comes out of
one Arctic winter. An Algonquin woman and her baby were left alone after everyone else
in the winter camp had starved. The woman walked from the camp where everyone had
died and found a small stash of provisions. She found no food, but she found one small
fishhook. She rigged a line, but had no bait and no hope of finding bait. The hungry baby
cried. She took a knife and cut a strip from her own thigh.
