A hauntingly beautiful meditation on genius and madness. Even at a young age, Elizabeth Wiltsee was different. With an IQ of 200, she was reading classical Greek at ten and taught herself Mandarin for fun. After graduating, the world should have been Elizabeth's oyster. But she shunned what she called ‘the fancy life' to live on the fringes of society. A decade later, parishioners in a small farming community would find her sleeping in the doorway of their church, apparently mute and adverse to all offers of help. Then she calmly walked into the wilderness and waited to die. Why? ‘This Dust of Words' is an elegy for a life lived differently, right to the end.
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