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chicago-geniza · 1 year

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I love the Weil family so much. I love that Sylvie Weil is like "I'm the family moron. The village idiot. The silly stupid girl. At age 16 I won the top academic prize for high schoolers in France and Charles de Gaulle shook my hand. But I'm just a bimbo"

I guess if your dad is a once-in-a-generation math prodigy and your aunt is Simone Weil, being a garden-variety Very Gifted Child makes you an idiot, comparatively. If you're not doing differential equations and translating Homer by 4th grade something is wrong with you

#simone tag #gd I want to write about the parallels between Galicia:Vienna and Alsace:Paris and how Second Republic Poland genuflected toward France #Solidly 75% of my marginalia in this book is just notes about Alsace and Galicia: Historical Parallels #[banging pots and pans together] ASSIMILATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS #EMPIRE AND ITS DISCONTENTS #ALSO NAPOLEON AND THE HABSBURGS ARE THERE

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