Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: "of the creation of the universe and the existence of something as a sign and an affront to nothing, is a blank one." What is...

The
way to understand Dillard's
statement in is to fix it in its context,
which is all
metaphorical and jumping from oneto another with very few solid pieces to
sink
one's teeth into, metaphorically speaking. Dillard is discussing the
existence of the universe
and the place of creatures in that universe. To
this end she is contemplating fish in Tinker
Creek and collecting mountains
of generalized facts. She states that she is overwhelmed by the
effort to see
through the veil darkly, metaphorically speaking, into things so vast and

indecipherable; she evens leaves the contemplation of birthrates and populations (both
tied
inexorably to climate change) to those who dare to contemplate it, as
she dares not.

This brings us to the quote in question.
Here Dillard is stating that the primary
question,...