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One more from Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek<\/em> (1974) before I shelve it. On gaps:<\/p>\n

Ezekiel excoriates false prophets as those who have “not gone up into the gaps.” The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit’s one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself for the first time like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the cliffs in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are the fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock–more than a maple–a universe. This is how you spend this afternoon, and tomorrow morning, and tomorrow afternoon. Spend<\/em> the afternoon. You can’t take it with you. (274)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That third sentence from the end, squeak, turn the soil, a universe, but why just one? A pluriverse, maybe. Or pluriverses. These gaps and this turning, in them hints of gap statements, which imply needed inquiry, why hasn’t anyone thought of this<\/em> yet, why hasn’t anyone<\/em> done this research, explored shareably this<\/em> wondering?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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