This is to say thank you to all readers and especially to Ellie Clayton, Phil Ebersole, IanInverness and Michael Peverett, for your comments on my recent Simone Weil posts. Also to those who clicked on “like”. Most especially to those who remained silent. It’s all valuable feedback.
It’s become clear that reading Gravity and Grace is not easy, whether in the English literal translation or in the French original. The content was taken from jottings in her notebooks, edited posthumously by her friend Gustave Thibon. It’s not appropriate, as I now realize, to present her work here in instalments. This is a voyage I must take alone, a rewarding full-time project to understand her thought and produce a new parallel edition, paraphrased into idiomatic English: all 39 chapters When it’s done, I shall approach the appropriate publisher to lodge it with them, not for gain but as a labour of love awaiting its due time. With any luck, the publisher will have it reviewed by a suitably qualified reader, to see if my version of Weil’s words is too bold and free. One way or another, I hope it reaches an audience who will grasp what it’s saying to the people of this world today.
If you are interested in progress from time to time, please let me know. And if you would like to review the work in progress at some stage, perhaps in a couple of months’ time, I can supply you with a draft.
In the meantime, A Wayfarer’s Notes has gone on sabbatical, again. I mean it this time!
With warmest wishes from Vincent
PS I’ve taken those recent Weil posts offline along with your comments. But they haven’t been trashed!
PPS Those posts have now been restored, warts & all.
a wayfarer’s notes 
I wish you well in your sabbatical endeavours. That’s all for now!
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thanks, will email you
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If we must make a strategic retreat, may we do it with grace and gratitude.
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Thanks, Ellie, change of plan (again). We shall continue at Finnegan’s, named after the pub in Dalkey, near Dublin. You need not make a strategic retreat after all!
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