![]() ![]() Weil shows that she was much more than just a demented masochist at the same time she was always also that. The pieces in this volume cover a wide variety topics. Nonetheless, Weil had a truly brilliant, original mind, and she left behind a record of suffering and spiritual transformation that's unique in western literature. So starving herself was the next best thing she could do. This goal was not shared by her comrades. Rather, she just desperately wanted to put herself in a position where she would be tortured and killed. In London (where she perished) the Free French movement had no use for her because, as she made abundantly clear, she had no interest in actually fighting the enemy. ![]() In a lot of ways Weil comes across as an extremely obnoxious character. Last year I read the biography by Simone Petrement. If I even try and admire her I start to feel like a coward and a hypocrite. ![]() Too much Simone Weil is bad for the soul - "Whenever I think of the crucifixion I commit the sin of envy," etc. ![]()
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