On this day in 1960 Albert Camus was killed in a car crash outside Paris at the age of forty-seven. On the basis of his novel The Outsider (1942), his "philosophical prose-poem" The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), his plays, his Nobel Prize (1957), his political activism, and his Humphrey Bogart good looks, Camus was elevated to almost cult status in the middle decades of the century.
Read more at Today In Literature.
The Myth of Sisyphus is the work by Camus that most influenced my thinking. The animation at the top of my blog speaks to this. I'm overdue for rereading him. Man, I'm overdue in rereading so many! I have little time to read anything new (except, of course, student work). And Chapman's Homer still stares at me from the bookcase.
Feeling damn good this morning! But hesitant to celebrate, having flirted with relapse all week. But I think I can get some work done this morning before I run out of energy, which seems to be the recent pattern. Onward.
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