How’s that for a nickname? It’s what Simone Weil’s high school classmates called her (among other things). In French it’s l’impératif catégorique dans les jupes.
Do you still laugh sometimes? Do you know how to lose yourself completely all over again in a moment of elemental joy—because of a view of houses, a human atmosphere, a song, a bit of landscape, a piece of film: in short a piece of good warm life? It’s something I love so much in you.
[Simone Weil, from a letter to Albertine Thévenon]
How’s that for a nickname? It’s what Simone Weil’s high school classmates called her (among other things). In French it’s l’impératif catégorique dans les jupes.