{Y}ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase {angle of repose} as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.
( Wallace Stegner )
[ Angle of Repose ]
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