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With every essay, I am afforded a new eye through which to see the world

I should read Leiris. Maybe.

I should read Camus.

The essay entitled Simone Weil, in spite of its brevity and base function as a footnote to The Artist as Exemplary Sufferer, is somewhat extraordinary. Possibly the final word on how the audience ought to treat the artist.

An essay a day, etc., etc. The Artist as Exemplary Sufferer, while weaker than the first two essays, is deeply fascinating: a close-to-total assessment of the artistic problems of the western world reached through the examination of the life and work of an Italian author I'd never heard of. Unreal! I wonder if I've ever felt more intellectually enriched than I feel at present.

On Style is nothing short of an essential piece of criticism, if frustratingly abstract ("the will" is never offered a real definition, only a circular/relative one)