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Susanna Forrest's avatar

So much food for thought. I feel as though we are rapidly losing not only the context for older texts but also an awareness that we need to seek out that context to understand them. The way de Beauvoir has been translated adds to this problem.

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Pamela Kelly's avatar

I really like that you noted their right to fail at something. It takes a step back from whether or not they did fail, and asserts instead their imperfect humanness.

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