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simones and their turbans

Sunday 1 February 2009 | 4 cookies in the jar

Re-researching de Beauvoir, I suffer an epiphany: So, had Castor’s arch-enemy Weil survived herself, she’d eventually have had to wear one too, right? It’s like, some kind of required Simone uniform? PS and here’s Mlle de B. as you’ve never seen her before…completely turbanless. Anyway I hadn’t. Though apparently Nelson Algren did, and often.

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