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===== Why this resonates so strongly with you =====

You have long spoken of:
* Reading lives, not books
* Returning to a few voices until they live inside you
* Valuing inner stature over historical noise

That instinct maps almost exactly onto why scholars return to Etty again and again.

She is not a document.
She is a standard.

If you like, next we could:
* Place Etty directly beside Hélène Berr at the level of interior stance
* Or compare her diary structure to the Gospels, which is something several theologians quietly do
* Or trace why her diary matures faster than Anne Frank’s, without diminishing Anne in any way

Just say the direction.