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02851aam a2200373 i 4500 001 7B7897A8EAB211EB95DB475F3FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210722010305 008 201013t20212021nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2020027210 020 $a 0593133641 020 $a 9780593133644 035 $a (OCoLC)1201695117 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d DLC $d BDX $d OCLCF $d CDX $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-ust-- $a n-ust-- 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Searcy, David, $d 1946- $e author. 245 14 $a The tiny bee that hovers at the center of the world / $c David Searcy. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Random House, $c [2021] 300 $a 190 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "A Random House Trade Paperback Original"--Title page verso. 520 $a "David Searcy's writing is enchanting and peculiar, obsessed with plumbing the mysteries and wonders of our everyday world, the beauty and cruelty of time, and nothing less than what he calls "the whole idea of meaning." With "casual virtuosity" (the New York Times) and an insatiable sense of awe, Searcy leads the reader across the landscapes of his extraordinary mind, moving from the slightly faded architectural wonder that is the town of Arcosanti, Arizona, to the open Texas highway in his much-abused college VW Beetle, to the mysterious, canal-riddled Martian landscape that famed astronomer Percival Lowell first saw through his telescope in 1894. Searcy does not come at his ideas directly, but rather digresses and meditates and analyzes, until some essential truth has been illuminated. It is perhaps best to let Searcy cut to the heart of this book's mission himself: "So here's a theory. We are lost. We're neither here nor there. There's you, and there's the you that knows there's you. And in that gap between the two--and we are always in that gap--we're migratory. Back and forth, always crossing and arriving. Somehow never quite arrived. This never-quiteness, fine-scale longing, is the form our self-awareness takes. It's hard to tell, of course, because it's us. But now and then, we catch an intimation. Something draws the vital emptiness out and shows it to us: Sounds of summer insects. The bewilderment of photographs. That inexplicable void between the earth and sky in children's drawings.""-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Searcy, David, $d 1946- 600 10 $a Searcy, David, $d 1946- $x Travel $z Southwestern States. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 21st century $v Biography. 651 0 $a Southwestern States $v Biography. 651 0 $a Southwestern States $x Description and travel. 941 $a 2 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630015052.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210722011830.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7B7897A8EAB211EB95DB475F3FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search