"it's About Work"...For Alice.

[Mark Kohut]

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/last-word-job-not-career?utm_content=buffere2d49&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Simone Weil, the self-suffering philosopher, maybe mystic, born Jewish who
'became Catholic' although she never allowed herself to be baptized nor
receive communion and held some beliefs which would have had her
excommunicated;  who "starved herself to death" in solidarity with WW2
sufferers wrote a major, famous once-upon-a-time work called Gravity &
Grace.

Forgive my hubris and since I haven't read many of the later commentators
lately, nor many of the earlier so let me know if I'm wrong, but I am the
only commentator I have ever seen comment on the very probable influence of
her, this work esp---umh, read that title AGAIN please?--on Pynchon, esp GR
and AtD. (I'll point out one sourcing, I think, if/when we get there in the
Group Read.)



A---and, Since TRP was a Catholic who used to go to mass "every day'
(during some college years Siegel is always saying) .....who his whole life
long is full of religious exploration of some kind as he also might be
challenging (and exploring) modernity, here's a new book that none of us
will probably read.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0190232919/?tag=bhis-20
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