Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds f…

Simone Weil
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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false? ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.343, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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