Essays - Brett Reynolds

Attention, Gift, and the Discipline of Not Being Fooled (2025)
A comparative reading of Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass. Examines how moral vocabularies – gift, listening, permission – can bind appetite or merely console it. Asks where the veto lives when our arrangements let us take the gains and send the damage elsewhere.
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