Anecdotal Evidence: `Curiously and Thrillingly Other'

Anecdotal Evidence: `Curiously and Thrillingly Other'
Excerpt:
In “Existing Things,” an essay collected in Fame & Folly (1996), Cynthia Ozick, like Kazin, returns to childhood and recovers an early memory – flecks of mica glinting in the sidewalks of New York City. She writes: 

“If you are five years old, loitering in a syrup of sunheat, gazing at the silver-white mica-eyes in the pavement, you will all at once be besieged by a strangeness: the strangeness of understanding, for the very first time, that you are really alive, and that the world is really true; and the strangeness will divide into a river of wonderings.”

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