Word: meursaults
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There last week, as fast as they could fill their boat-shaped baskets with the honeycombs of tiny black Pinot grapes, the harvesters spilled them into mule-drawn carts. At Montrachet -whose wine, said Dumas, "ought to be drunk kneeling, with head bared"-around Beaune, at Meursault, Romanee-Conti, Vougeot and Gevrey-Chambertin-each hillside as famous in France as any of Napoleon's battlefields, it was the same. Off went the grapes, the best first, to be pressed in cellars at the foot of each small field. From the vats within these reeking temples of Bacchus rose...
Trigger Man. Meursault, the central character in the story, is a clerk. He lives in Algiers (where Camus himself was born). One day, on a beach just outside the city, he murders a man, for no particular reason. He is arrested and sentenced to die on the guillotine...
...Camus pictures him, Meursault is neither crazy nor criminal; nor is he a conscious rebel protesting against the pressures of society. He is simply a person who "exists," a man to whom nothing really matters. He has no positive beliefs, political or nonpolitical. Before committing the murder, he goes about his daily work, makes friends casually, attends his mother's funeral casually, casually promises to marry a girl. When the time comes. he quite as casually pulls the trigger of the revolver. Meursault does not regret it. Murder, he feels, makes no difference, for everything in life comes...