Composer Missy Mazzoli like others before her, stumbled on these writings, was moved by Eberhardt's life and transfixed by how it embodied so many themes of the 21st century.
What makes it special is how expertly it embodies them.
It is painful to read the drama surrounding the collapse of Kids Company and realise how much it embodies the divisive cultural issues in our society: head v heart, state provision v voluntary, and the unpalatable gap between instinctively wanting to help poor children and the ability to pay for it.
It should be remembered that protest is by nature both contentious and disruptive – any scholar of its history will tell you as much, and if a polity is incapable of dealing with collective contention it is difficult to see how it is embodying democratic principles.
In many ways, How It Went Down embodies the chaos and denial following such a heavy – and, in the real world, far from isolated – tragedy.
Perhaps a more interesting aspect of Close's work is how it anticipated and embodies the transition from an analogue take on art to the digital, all-at-once aesthetic of the contemporary world.
How is it embodied and honoured?
If the scene weren't so genuinely comfortable, it would have been unsettling how perfectly it embodied a certain kind of adolescent girl's literary fantasies — "Baby-Sitters Club" meets "Sweet Valley High" meets "Sex and the City" meets all those young-adult books about horseback riding and pluck.
As Pinter said in his speech: "The truth is to do with how the United States understands its role in the world and how it chooses to embody it".
Every society is judged by how well it embodies its highest aspirations and how it treats its most vulnerable people.
