By Edith Wharton
Essays concerning the French and their tradition written in the course of international battle I.
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Just a little, but significant, event. One day my mother unfairly and heavily punished me for the howls of my little sister. I was still very young, but I left the family home, and even the garden in which the thing happened, and took refuge in the woods, which were a few miles away from there. My mother sent someone to search for me, and it was not so easy to find me and bring me back home. Already at that time, it was not from humans but from nature that I asked for help. I also think that my decision, during my first university years, to opt for defending my feminine identity and values against the neutralization of the individual, of discourse, and of thought took part in the same longing for living, instead of subjecting myself to cultural constructions that paralyzed life, its growing and its sharing.
Man, anyway, transforms a natural energy into a more or less artificial energy, which both lacks its own resources and subjects the whole to fabricated ends and forms. The becoming of those who or which grew by themselves with their own forms is interrupted. —henceforth continue bearing witness to the potential of an elemental origin: rooted in the earth, growing in the air thanks to the light and warmth of the sun, but also the humidity that the rains bring. Following Aristotle (in Physics B1) one could say that finally only vegetal life testifies to the potential of phusis itself.
Obviously, I could not accept such a choice, which, moreover, was not left to me. I was expelled from any establishment, including by women, and was not allowed to get a word in edgewise. Even Simone de Beauvoir refused to make an appointment with me. I had no other alternative but asking nature to teach me how I could preserve and cultivate life, beginning with my own life. Thus, I had to return to a time even before the institutional conflict, in which Creon opposed Antigone, and inquire about the order the latter defended.