Misattributed to Karl Ove Knausgård and Annie Dillard’s Teaching a stone to talk. Audio. Guardian.
But also an art installation by Robert Gober.
Annie Dillard, from her famous essay “To Fashion a Text.”
“When I gave up writing poetry I was very sad, for I had devoted 15 years to the study of how the structures of poems carry meaning. But I was delighted to find that nonfiction prose can also carry meaning in its structures, can tolerate all sorts of figurative language, as well as alliteration and even rhyme. The range of rhythms in prose is larger and grander than it is in poetry, and it can handle discursive ideas and plain information as well as character and story. It can do everything. I felt as though I had switched from a single reed instrument to a full orchestra.“
