Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Edith Bone (1889-1975)

On Myself

Here lies the body of Edith Bone.
All her life she lived alone,
Until Death added the final S
And put an end to her loneliness.

(The Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, ed. Grigson, 1977, p. 221)

I am reminded of Eleanor Rigby.

Dr. Edith Bone was another of those who early on looked to Communism for a solution, but by the end of her life had seen through its false promises.  In 1956 she was was released from a Hungarian jail after seven years of political imprisonment.

Biography here.


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