Claudia Rankine from Citizen
Tag: affliction
Simone Weil
Adriana Cavaero, Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence
affliction does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.
simone weil, waiting for god, 445
Simone Weil, “SCIENCE, NECESSITY AND THE LOVE OF GOD”
The sensitivity of the innocent victim who suffers is like felt crime. True crime cannot be felt. The innocent victim who suffers knows the truth about his executioner, the executioner does not know it. The evil which the innocent victim feels in himself is in his executioner, but he is not sensible of the fact. The innocent victim can only know the evil in the shape of suffering. That which is not felt by the criminal is his own crime. That which is not felt by the innocent victim is his own innocence. It is the innocent victim who can feel hell.
Simone Weil
Pensive melancholy today from Franz Wright, yet another Pulitzer
Prize-winner and Salmagundi contributor. Here’s “A Successful Day” from
Issue #144-145 of 2004-05.
Simone Weil remarked that if the cry of victims is Why? the cry of the tormenter is Why not?
anne carson from decreation
andrea dworkin from life and death
Little Bristling Soul 