"By saying Simone Weil's life was both comic and terrible, I am not
trying to reduce it, but mean to be paying her the highest tribute I
can, short of calling her a saint, which I don't believe she was.
Possibly I have a higher opinion of the comic and terrible than you do.
To my way of thinking it includes her great courage and to call her
anything less would be to see her as merely ordinary. She was certainly
not ordinary."
Flannery O'Connor, from a letter on 30 September 1955.
