Camus's New York Diary (1946)
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Camus's New York Diary (1946)
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#2Something about Camus' succinct but elegant way of writing that is very attractive to me. That man was just too cool.
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#3"A stroll to Staten Island"
Pardon me? Like, through New Jersey? Hell of a stroll!
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#4> The heart trembles before so much remarkable inhumanity.
i can see what he is getting at, though i have to say that on my own visits to NY (from london, uk) i often thought there was too much humanity!
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#5"A stroll to Staten Island" Pardon me? Like, through New Jersey? Hell of a stroll!
perhaps he took a ferry? and isn't there a bridge? things may get lost in translation.
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#6> Finally a country that really takes care of its children.
I mentally shed a tear when I reached this part.
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#7I recently read The Plague by Camus about an epidemic happening in colonial Oran, Algeria. I sometimes smiled at how underwhelming it was in comparison to what the COVID pandemic revealed about society and human nature in times of total catastrophe.
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#8"A stroll to Staten Island" Pardon me? Like, through New Jersey? Hell of a stroll!
perhaps he took a ferry? and isn't there a bridge? things may get lost in translation.
There's no bridge to this day. There's the start of a tunnel on both ends, but not very far along. He likely took a ferry.
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#9Happy guy for an existentialist of that period; most were dour and fatalist. I like him!
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
perhaps he took a ferry? and isn't there a bridge? things may get lost in translation.
There's no bridge to this day. There's the start of a tunnel on both ends, but not very far along. He likely took a ferry.