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Birds of Arabia
Fragments of correspondence

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With letters from Simone Weil
to Antonio Atarès, 1941-1942

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In 1939, the Spanish Republicans
fled Franco's regime.

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They crossed the Pyrenees
and sought refuge in France.

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Most were held in camps.

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One year later, the German Army
was at the gate of Paris.

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Young Jewish philosopher
Simone Weil

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went to the Free Zone, Marseilles,
and joined the Resistance.

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In 1941, Simone Weil heard that
Spanish anarchist, Antonio Atarès,

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was still being held
in the Vernet d'Ariège camp.

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To help him,
she decided to write to him.

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Dear Sir,

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you will no doubt be surprised
to receive a letter from a stranger.

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But your former camp mate, Nicolas,

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told me so much about you,

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I feel I know you.

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Do you remember him?
He was with you in June and July.

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He told me

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you were alone

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and had no outside help.

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So I want to do something for you.

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Unfortunately, I can’t do much.

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I am sorry I can’t write in Spanish.

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If you don't understand French,

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I hope you'll find
someone to translate it.

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With my best wishes and regards.

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Simone Weil.

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On 10 March 1941, Antonio Atarès
received a first letter from Simone.

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One month later, he was deported
by the Vichy government to Djelfa,

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a camp in Algeria.

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5 June 1941.

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My dear friend,

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I am sad they sent you
to a climate that is bad for you.

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Can I do anything for you?

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Do you need something warm
for when the nights are cold?

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Please, give me your rough size.

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Clothes are scarce,

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but maybe I can manage.

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Here is a beautiful copla:

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The birds of Arabia
live eternally

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because they do not know
what it is to be sad.

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If they did feel sadness
in the world there would be no more

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birds of Arabia.

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I sent you some money.
I will do it again,

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if you are in need,
depending on my possibilities.

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Whenever I have money,
I never consider that it is my property.

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It is simply there.
Sending it, I don’t feel I’m giving.

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It simply passes from my hands
to someone else who needs it,

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and I don’t feel it is of my doing.

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I would like money to be like water

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and run to where it is needed.

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When you receive money,

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don't think it is from me.

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Simply that a little money
has fallen into your hands.

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It's nothing to do with us.

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What we give to each other
and receive from each other

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are thoughts and feelings

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in the form of letters.

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My dear friend,

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the weather is marvellous here.

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The sea is flooded with light,
the trees covered with leaves.

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I am happy  

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to know you find joy
in looking at the mountains.

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As long as we have sea,

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mountains, wind,

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sun, stars,

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moon, sky,

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we can’t be completely miserable.

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Even if we were deprived of all that

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and in a dungeon,

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knowing that all these things exist,
and that they are beautiful,

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that others are free to enjoy them

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must always console us.

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I am happy that we are in touch.

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January, February, March, the rain
of punishments, one after another.

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Temporal bones sunk
lice-covered rock

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two eyes, sad and swollen,
encrusted with sleep;

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collarbones bared,
bony-winged scapula,

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under his nose the impassive
fluid and shiny drip.

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Forming sad diagonals
the choir of the ribs burst into

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kyrie eleisons
for the hairless, sunken sternum.

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The tits distil pus
that flows to the belly,

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field of eczema and pustules,
concave, mangy, hollow belly.

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Where is my joyous companion
blithe, stalwart and irrepressible?

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In the pits continuously
open to the air,

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vile dumps
of kitchen refuse,

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yellowing residue,
peeled piles,

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stinking dead camels;
noisome ossuaries.

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Blind blankets
their only clothes,

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real naked skeletons,
covered in dirt,

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their only implements
nail and tooth,

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crouching men
nibble leached bones.

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Hunger nullifying death,
they reflect the world

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that led them there.

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Weed, vermin and pus,

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they stink, brownish pong,
and their entrails gnaw.

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Biting their worm dust,
relentless juice,

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men become jackals,
misery and denial,

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not ruminating earth
but stones.

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You tell me not to deprive myself

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for one healthy life is worth more
than two anaemics.

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That made me sad.

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Are you sick?

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I’m not, 

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but am at a low ebb.

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As I write, I’m watching
the sun setting on the Mediterranean sea.

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I wish you could see
such beauty every day,

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you and all those
who are able to appreciate beauty.

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The sky is beautiful everywhere,

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day and night,

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even

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when barely visible

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through the clouds.

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The nights must be
full of stars in Africa.

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Do you look at them a lot?
Can you name them?

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Plato said eyesight is precious only

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because it allows us to see
stars, planets, moon and sun.

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I am ashamed to say I hardly know
any constellations or their names.

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A few months ago,
I found a map of the sky

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to put an end to my ignorance.

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But I didn't study it. I don't
need books to look at the sky.

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Just looking often, for a long time,

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I recognise groups of stars and the
movement of the sky like the shepherds

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who invented astronomy
thousands of years ago.

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There is no greater joy
than to sky watch on a clear night,

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so concentrated,

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that all other thoughts disappear

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and you feel

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the stars enter your soul.

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I’ll soon be leaving Marseilles
and going to work in the fields.

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Maybe I won’t be able 

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to write much because of fatigue.

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I’ll think about you all the more.

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Whatever you say about
how you find reassurance,

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I know your joy has been
conquered through pain.

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That’s the deepest joy.

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When you find it, you are one with
the true sages of pre-Christian times

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and all the true saints

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since then.

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They could raise their souls
to the point, unknown to most,

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where pain is joy and joy pain.

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This is also the place
that true poets attain.

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You are their brother,

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but I want you to cease suffering.

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I wish I was in your place,
and you in mine.

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Here are a few lines
by Aeschylus.

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They are spoken by Prometheus,
the god who the Greeks believed

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saved men from destruction,
stole fire to give it to them

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and taught them language, numbers,
astronomy, crafts and the arts.

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He was punished for this
and bound to a rock.

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The tragedy begins
with the scene where they bind him.

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He is silent throughout,

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but when his torturers leave,

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he says:

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"O divine air, breezes on swift wings
O river fountains, and of ocean-waves

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Multitudinous laughter, Mother Earth
and thou all-seeing circle of sun

157) 00:27:09:03 00:27:14:18 Durée 05:15 Lis : 67 Nbc : 38
Behold what I, a God,
from Gods endure!

158) 00:27:15:10 00:27:20:17 Durée 05:07 Lis : 63 Nbc : 59
Look down upon my shame
the cruel wrong that racks my frame.

159) 00:27:21:14 00:27:26:16 Durée 05:02 Lis : 61 Nbc : 61
Till time's ten thousand years
have measured out their length!

160) 00:27:26:21 00:27:33:21 Durée 07:00 Lis : 84 Nbc : 59
He hath devised these chains,
the new potentate who reigns."

161) 00:30:22:15 00:30:24:18 Durée 02:03 Lis : 25 Nbc : 12
18 May 1942.

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My dear friend,

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Today I have to tell you something

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that will cause you grief.

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My heart is heavy thinking of it.

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I spoke in my last letter

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of my parents’ attempts
to go to America,

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and I told you
I can’t refuse to go with them.

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I didn’t think it would work.

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But it did.

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By chance, we got a place in a ship.

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While the surrounding sea’s
marvellous presence filled my soul,

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my thoughts were for you.

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I entrust the stars, the moon, the sun,
the blue sky, the wind, the birds,

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the light, the immensity of space,
I entrust them all, who are by your side,

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I entrust them all
with my thoughts for you

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and ask them to give you
the joy I desire for you

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and you so deserve.

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Forgive me for doing nothing for you
and for going so far away now.

180) 00:31:55:20 00:31:58:14 Durée 02:19 Lis : 33 Nbc : 33
Believe in my deepest friendship.

181) 00:31:59:16 00:32:00:19 Durée 01:03 Lis : 13 Nbc : 12
Simone Weil.

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Knowing they'd soon be liberated
as the Allies has landed in Algeria

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on 8 November 1942,

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tired of waiting to be freed,
the prisoners set fire to the camp.

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25 March, 1943.
Simone Weil wrote to her mother:

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They say the Spanish
have finally been liberated.

187) 00:33:32:11 00:33:36:02 Durée 03:16 Lis : 44 Nbc : 34
But who knows if Antonio is alive?

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26 May, 1943.
Antonio Atarès boarded a train to Oran.

189) 00:36:51:05 00:36:54:18 Durée 03:13 Lis : 42 Nbc : 42
24 August 1943,
Simone Weil died in London.

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She was 34.

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The coroner wrote:
"Death was caused by heart failure

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due to weakening
caused by lack of food

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and was not due to
pulmonary tuberculosis."

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Dear Selma Weil,
The photo you sent me

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of our unforgettable Simone
gave me boundless joy.

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I long contemplated the picture
of this woman I knew in substance

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if not in form.

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We were both great admirers
of spiritual beauty

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considering it the only beauty
that can appease society

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in the face of its own chaos.

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Antonio Atarès, Buenos Aires, 1951

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Translation: Linda Herbertson
and Maura Mc Guinness

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Subtitles: Anne Grèzes