Beauvoir

In Simone de Beau­voir’s 1945 nov­el The Blood of Oth­ers, the nar­ra­tor, Jean Blo­mart, reviews on his baby­hood good friend Marcel’s reac­tion to the phrase “rev­o­lu­tion”: It was sense­much less to attempt to change any­factor on this planet or in life; issues had been unhealthy sufficient even when one didn’t med­dle with them. Each­factor that…