“Eternal Living fire.” Heraclitus, the Sphinx-Thinker, Beloved by Simone Weil

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In Heraclitus, when we say fragment, we mean: a shard of glass, an arrowhead, a poison dart—something that wounds; that mutilates. This is why Heraclitus is the most audacious thinker of the twentieth century, the mutilated century, the century that made mutilation its charisma. The bomb, the bombardment, muteness in mutilating. (Mutilated Nike, mutilated Bacon, mutilated souls, incompleteness, and giving this scythe its springtime name) Unlike,…