NO. 79. If you would know the woman, start there. Had her posthumous fate played out as she preferred, her name would not have appeared on her gravestone, but instead there would have been anonymous numbers of the kind assigned to paupers. And for 15 years after her death, Simone Weil was a nameless nobody […]
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