1. Camus
... obeys laws and fits a pattern, all of which is convincing until one is asked to accept that an infinity of matter is revolving around an invisible nucleus. Scientist explain the world with an image we cannot see, "so that science was to teach me everything ends up in a hypothesis, that ... (Sisyphus 20). The aware individual can no longer find solace in nature, in scientific reasoning, or in the accompaniment of others. The aware man is a lonely man; he must be content in his individual revolt against the absurd. The Plague itself does not directly represent the Absurd, but the extreme ci...
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