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Simone Weil and Homer and Force and Love and Blake.

11-Sep-11

http://busingers.ca/wp-content/themes/workreap/style.css Scott Moringiello recalls Simone Weil on Homer and violence: “The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force, that x that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing.” “Exercised to the limit, it turns man into a thing in the most literal sense: it makes a corpse out of him.” […]