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Monday, March 23, 2020

Camus's Plague

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  1. I just saved this article. I would love to read up on Camus a bit more. Any suggestions?

    The last sentence really spoke to me: "He knew, as we do not, that 'everyone has it inside himself, this plague, because no one in the world, no one, is immune.'" Life is unpredictable and ever-changing. It is easy to get comfortable in our lives, but this pandemic is a reminder that every aspect of life can change so quickly. This is true all of the time, but we don't notice it as easily until something as big as a global pandemic hits.

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    1. Start with The Myth of Sisyphus. The Plague, obviously. The Rebel. The Stranger. Sarah Bakewell's "At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails"...

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    2. And for a contemporary novel (if that's not a bad word now!) that uses Camus's ideas as a backdrop, Richard Powers's "Generosity: An Enhancement"* -- the title comes from Camus's statement “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”

      *https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6346773-generosity?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=3w66ppOD2F&rank=1

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