RIP. She never underwrote, but her prose was good enough that one let her get away with it. theguardian.com/books/2020/nov…
She herself stepped back from some of the things she wrote in Conundrum, but, as a book published in 1974, it’s heroic.
(Or perhaps ‘revised’ rather than ‘stepped back from’, since the latter implies a retreat.

We have simply learned to think more precisely and usefully since the seventies.)

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