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Annie Dillard's book contains many excerpts from authors such as Thoreau, Fabre, and Darwin.

Fact: In her book, Annie Dillard describes a flood on Tinker Creek, which she says looked "like a blacksnake caught in a kitchen drawer."

Statement: Annie Dillard defines innocence in her book as "the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object."

Fact: Annie Dillard's book "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" is described as offering "a meteorological journal of the mind," a phrase attributed to Thoreau.

Statement: Annie Dillard describes herself in her book as "a poet and a walker with a background in theology and a penchant for quirky facts," not a scientist.

Fact: The narrative of "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" involves Annie Dillard tramping the Roanoke creek banks and the Blue Ridge mountainside.

Fact: Annie Dillard's book recounts a story of a formerly blind child who, after cataract surgery, saw "the tree with lights in it."

The narrator claims to have once broken a framed painting over a pedestrian's skull.

Werner Heisenberg's book 'Physics and Beyond' attributes a remark about a fireplace acting as a cooling device to Niels Bohr.

The typewriter was invented in various forms starting in 1867 and was in common use by 1900.

The author found a joke about a fireplace cooling a room in Werner Heisenberg's book 'Physics and Beyond'.

Julia A. Moore was known by the nickname 'the sweet singer of Michigan'.

The narrator states they are almost six feet tall, give or take a few inches.

There is a famous case of a Tennessee mountain hermit who, in the 1930s, claimed to have invented the typewriter.

The New York Times Magazine published three of Annie Dillard's early essays appearing for the first time in their current form.

Annie Dillard's book 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek' won the Pulitzer Prize.

One of Annie Dillard's essays published in the magazine ends with the line, 'Possible books abound; I’d rather write an impossible page.'

The three early essays by Annie Dillard published in the magazine have been revised multiple times over several decades.

Two of Annie Dillard's essays, 'Recalling Niels Bohr' and 'Lonesome, With Snails', are about jokes.

Annie Dillard's memoir 'An American Childhood' is about her growing up in Pittsburgh.