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Show 195 of the Sierra, he must have realized that his book failed to do justice to the wholeness of the mountains he loved. I suppose that the inconsistencies and errors in his own views of Nature were dredged up and objectified in the writing of the Studies. But further, I have argued that he was aware of the tension between unsatisfactory metaphors, and that he learned much about himself, about his limitations. In the process of writing an imperfectly coherent book, he discovered cracks in the structure of his thought which do not appear again in his writing. Most important, his attention to flow became the theme of his best writing in the middle seventies; so even while he felt obligated to complete the Studies, he was moving in a new direction, was consolidating his energies. These burst forth in the Stormy Sermons. |