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Fecundity Annie Dillard Analysis

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Annie Dillard discusses a variety of big questions throughout her analysis of the horrors of “fecundity” in Chapter 10 - “Is there a value of life?” and “What if God has the same affectionate disregard for us that we have for barnacles?” are two I have found. Dillard analyzes the “value” by contemplating the grotesque nature of fecundity, writing, “I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives” First, Dillard argues that nature proves life is cheap by using supporting evidence like that of aphids, who may

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