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Perhaps it is the closeness to animals, different animals besides cats and roaches, that is important. Perhaps too, Camus is right in saying that "man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is." It must be both more and less intricate than that, depending in part on whether, the question is asked in the city or the country...
...months ago. And now it is lost, rendered almost meaningless as an expression of passion. I want to smash the radio, to deny what is happening. But that would be insane. Yet there is the feeling that at some point there must be a final line, the line which Camus says defines the revolutionary situation, where one says this much and no more, and picks up a gun. A time when a meaningless death, though politically wrong, might be the only response left to a dying spirit...
Perhaps Fuller's delusion comes from his viewpoint. In his notebooks, Albert Camus once described the airplane "as one of the elements of modern negation and abstraction. There is no more nature . . . everything disappears. There remains a diagram-a map. Man, in short, looks through the eyes of God. And he perceives that God can have but an abstract view. This is not a good thing...
...MANN and Camus: dead. Sartre: silent. Malraux: Minister of Culture. The old mullers and brooders, the old definers of crisis, are heard no more in the European novel. For a long time it seemed that there might be no successors. A surprise candidate has now emerged from the wings, an odd figure with a loser's accent and a bizarre past. His earlier books had astonishing power, using dwarfs and drums and scarecrows to explore the nightmare dominion of Nazi Germany and the guilt that followed. To many readers, particularly in the U.S., all this was fascinating. It also seemed...
...involved concepts of history and political change-and Chambers could not quite forgo them. But for the great labor of trying to save "the unsavable society" politically, Chambers invoked the classic symbol of stoic stalemate. "We must believe that Sisyphus is happy," he quotes Camus to Buckley. And he clearly saw himself as Sisyphus...