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Camus's New York Diary (1946)

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Re: Camus's New York Diary (1946)

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Post by noduerme »

akiselev wrote: post #17

> Their fondness for animals. A multistory pet shop: canaries on the second floor, great apes at the top. A couple of years ago, a man was arrested on Fifth Avenue for driving a giraffe around in his truck. He explained that his giraffe didn’t get enough air out in the suburbs where he kept it and that he’d found this to be a good way to get it some air. In Central Park, a lady brought a gazelle to graze. To the cour…

My dad got a pet monkey in New York in the 1950s when he was a kid. Moishe the monkey. According to Dad, he used to walk the monkey around the park in the Bronx and introduce him to girls. (Translation: The monkey introduced my dad to girls.) The downside was the monkey made a complete mess of his parents' apartment and they ended up giving him away.

Re: Camus's New York Diary (1946)

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Post by noduerme »

OneLeggedCat wrote: post #20
z3c0 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He always rebuked the "existentialist" moniker for that reason. Most would call him an absurdist for his insistence towards finding happiness amidst the absurd indifference of life towards ones aspirations.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Easy to say when the daily climb is up to the cliff house where you're shacked up with a couple chicks.

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Post by aryanmann »

noduerme wrote: post #23
OneLeggedCat wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Easy to say when the daily climb is up to the cliff house where you're shacked up with a couple chicks.

Well, he was a part of the resistance against Nazi occupation. Albeit less on the front lines and more on the journalistic side, but nonetheless. I'd say it's valid enough to give him the opportunity to have an existential crisis.

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Post by 2b3a51 »

> I notice that I haven’t noticed the skyscrapers, that they’ve seemed only natural. It’s a question of overall scale. And in any case, you can’t always walk around with your head turned up. A person can keep only so many floors in sight at once.

Just realised that this is happening in the centre of the city I live in. Quite a few 45 and 50 story towers going up, but from street level it is just buildings like the 10 story ones before.

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Post by laejoh »

tetromino_ wrote: post #16
standardUser wrote: post #3

"A stroll to Staten Island" Pardon me? Like, through New Jersey? Hell of a stroll!

Obvious mistranslation. I am guessing the intended meaning of the French original was something like "excursion" or "cruise".

A mistranslation. I have an original french version which says "Promenade avec Chiaromonte et Abel à Staten Island.", so we're talking about a walk in Staten Island, not to Staten Island I believe.

Re: Camus's New York Diary (1946)

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Post by bloak »

laejoh wrote: post #28
tetromino_ wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obvious mistranslation. I am guessing the intended meaning of the French original was something like "excursion" or "cruise".

A mistranslation. I have an original french version which says "Promenade avec Chiaromonte et Abel à Staten Island.", so we're talking about a walk in Staten Island, not to Staten Island I believe.

Google Translate says: "Walk with Chiaromonte and Abel in Staten Island."

But I think it should be "on Staten Island"? So perhaps the score is:

Google Translate: ½

Ryan Bloom: 0

(Sorry, Ryan! I've made worse mistakes myself!)

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