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Old 01-09-2006, 06:07 PM
Strangelet
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Re: Albert Camus - The Stranger
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Originally Posted by *_*
Erm.. that is the "point"... it is pointless!! It's intended to be pointless.
Ahhh ok, so when you said

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Originally Posted by *_*
unless you have a pretty solid understanding of Camus' 'The Myth of Sisyphus', as well as absurdism and existentialism .... The Stranger' prolly seems pointless.
you meant to say, being ignorant of his pointmaking of pointlessness, the pointlessness is even more pointless, so the point Camus makes is even more pointedly pointless?

gotcha.

we'll have to agree to disagree on who would win who in an existential death match between camus and sartre...
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