[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities....

“ [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

From : Angle of Repose