... his own demise as an unfortunate direct result of mankind's imperfect technology. In addition to feeling "like a stranger in his own dying" (142), Jack begins to experience the scientific certainty of his death: "We are all the sum total of our data . . . just as we are the sum total of our chemical impulses" (202) with an overpowering sense of dread. Jack's wife, Baba, although ... shock and panic into the shoppers (i.e. the masses) until they can adjust to the new system. After surviving the initial traumatic change, we see the shoppers quickly resume their mindless lives on the road ...

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... = thought, mental processes). "Hedonism" in contemporary language has a negative connotation. By "hedonist" many people mean a person who seeks the pleasures in life, without any thought of morality and or analysis of the future. A "hedonist" is typically someone who loves to party, perhaps drink and smoke illegal things, showing an irresponsible sexual behavior. ... Remember the final episode of Seinfeld when Jerry, George, Elaine and even Kramer were locked up in ... life does not help her come to terms with her freedom either. Is Meursault free in Camus' The Stranger? No he is not. A...

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