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...belief that God created man "in His own image" was apparently alien to Simone Weil, who could not see why God, who is infinite, should create something "that is outside himself, that is not himself." The only way to bridge the contradiction, she felt, was through Christ on the Cross. "It is not by eating the fruit of a certain tree, as Adam thought, that one becomes the equal of God, but by going the way of the Cross." It is perhaps not too far-fetched to suggest that Simone Weil's obsession with becoming "the equal...
...poignantly illustrates the distinction between insiders and outsiders. A Western invasion would revive fears of Germany, cause the people to submerge their grievences, and solidify in the Russian camp. Geographical proximity, the economic and defensive power of Russia will tie these peoples to the past--not to the alien west. Invasion will only force the peoples of Eastern Europe to realize that their governments speak their language. They will unite to defend the motherland against foreign invasion as they have so often done before...
...upheaval. Born for the most part of poor parents in the slums of Britain's big cities, they had sketchy education and their home life was almost nonexistent. Thanks to the war, they spent much of their childhood herded together in shelters, or evacuated in groups into an alien countryside where the activities of all city boys are regarded with cold suspicion. Back in the cities again, they began to congregate in mutual admiration societies on drab and dingy street corners...
Over them float squiggling black lines that might be found on a microscope slide. Perhaps Klee meant to indicate his awareness of a hostile, alien substance heralding the beginning of disintegration. Two years later, on June 29, 1940, Klee died of his wasting disease...
What few Indians cared to recognize, however, was that both the student curfew and Desai's fast represented a dangerous retrogression in Indian politics. In Gandhi's day, soul force and fasting were directed against an alien government. Today India's mobs are using soul force (and physical force) in an attempt to overturn decisions of their own Parliament, and Indian leaders who fast to assert their power are countering with another perversion of Gandhi's legacy...