mountains great stone bells; clang together like nuns. shushed stars? — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone Talk: Expeditions Encounters

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The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them do, of course, occur. But these collisions are very long and silent slides. Billions of stars sift amont each other untouched, too distant even to be moved, heedless as always, hushed. The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. But God knows I have tried.

Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

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