[lit-ideas] Re: Simone Weil (Was: Kataphatic, Negative and Apophatic Theo...

  • From: JulieReneB@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:28:44 EDT

I don't know that she was trying to do science.  In other books which  she 
wrote for publication she likely was.  And they are much more  analyzable.  But 
again, Gravity & Grace was her private personal  jouranlizing ramblings; 
thoughts she jotted to herself never thinking anyone  else would read them.  If 
she 
had been approached about publishing them I'm  sure she would have 
restructured and reworded them.  Some of her entries I  find totally 
comprehensible and 
straightforward.  Some are paradoxical and  fascinating in where they lead 
your mind.  Others are totally obscure  because she wrote in a sort of personal 
shorthand that is pretty cryptic.   I really *really* need to find my copy!!
 
Julie Krueger
 
========Original  Message========     Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Simone Weil (Was: 
Kataphatic, Negative and  Apophatic Theology)  Date: 8/6/2004 12:06:26 PM 
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At 11:52 AM 8/6/2004, you wrote:
>Speaking  of Simone Weil, I read Gravity and Grace.  It was one of those
>books  I read where, for the most part, I didn't have even the slightest  
clue
>what was going on.  For example, here are some random  aphorisms.  Can anyone
>tell me what any of these mean?

This  is just another case of someone (who doesn't really know what she is 
talking  about) using an inept analogy and confusing people. You can't get 
these  aphorisms because they're silly. Artsies should NOT try to do 
science. I  remember sitting in a creative writing class one day listening 
to two people  who were arguing about what the formula for the area of a 
circle was:  neither had it right, but the professor allowed it to continue. 
Obviously HE  didn't know either.

Of course, philosophically, it reminds me about  Stephen Wright who reported 
getting kicked out of a casino for having an  argument at the roulette table 
over what "HE considered an ODD  number".

Paul

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Kingsville, ON, Canada  

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