Dear Editor
Dear Editor A Plus Congratulations on adding Ray Alan to your list of regular contributors. His "Euro-Vista" columns manage to be conversational and serious at the same time, making them a delight...
...The only problem is how people will be able to follow her into this rich yet private wonderland of hers which could, and indeed should, be the blessed property of all...
...Though the level of fighting has declined appreciably since the Americans pulled out, the war still goes on, with both sides taking several hundred casualties some weeks...
...Thus she is compelled to transcend the monotony of conventional language...
...New York City Wilbur Phillips...
...Annie Dillard is a naturalist with extrasensory perception who refuses to submit to the rule of Zeitgeists and research laboratories...
...Chicago Eliot R. Roberts Paradise Charles Deemer's review of Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ("Up the Creek," NL, June 24) was both inane and nasty...
...Annie Dillard, it seems to me, is an enchanting, creative intellectual...
...His "Euro-Vista" columns manage to be conversational and serious at the same time, making them a delight to read and a real plus for your magazine...
...Constantly intoxicated by what most would consider ordinary, she is kept in a state of joyful exaltation, and this causes her to speak as a seer of sights, sounds and spiritual undercurrents...
...Still, it had nothing to do-despite Hope Hale Davis' allegations (Dear Editor, NL, July 8) -with his male superiority...
...Enigmatic, unscientific but profoundly intuitive, she goes beyond the surface of things...
...In her metaphoric ways she has fully accomplished what she set out to do...
...New York City Laszlo T. Kiss Vietnam Donald Kirk's "Vietnam Between Wars" (NL, July 22) offers some perceptive comparisons between the situation there today, one year after the Paris cease-fire, and what it was like in 1955, a year after the Geneva agreement...
...The vivacious symbols she deciphered on her mission of metaphysical discovery generate vitality and convey happy truths...
...Here is a different view from another male (figuratively speaking, a former Hungarian wolf) on the book and its radiant author...
...Yet to describe the current non-peace as a "lull" seems to be stretching the point somewhat...
...Let us hope that they will try, for in this modern age of technology, despair and drugs she presents a sublime alternative: the hope of finding paradise-with the help of our inner lights-on earth...
...In fact, she is a mystic, unbound by sectarian dogmas and bent upon sharing her intimately exquisite bliss in nature...
Vol. 57 • August 1974 • No. 16
