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"I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world." — The Stranger, Albert Camus

and there it is. the whole damn thesis.

camus didn’t write a character, he wrote a mood disorder with a name tag.

meursault isn’t empty. he’s overfull. overfull of heat, smoke, sea-salt sweat, and the cosmic indifference of a world that doesn’t blink when your mama dies.

i read The Stranger like i was half-awake in a hospital waiting room. that slow drip of anesthesia where you start to question if you’re numb or if feeling ever made sense in the first place.

he doesn’t cry at the funeral. doesn’t scream in court. doesn’t bargain with death.

and the world hates him for it. not because he’s evil, but because he refuses to lie about how absurd all this is.

the sun’s too bright. the truth’s too stark. the choices are a coin flip in a burning field.

meursault doesn’t play the game. doesn’t offer the comfort of narrative. and in a society obsessed with meaning, that’s the most violent rebellion of all.

camus didn’t ask us to become like meursault— he dared us to stare at the void and not flinch.

and if you can do that? maybe, just maybe, you can find freedom in the chaos. not hope. not redemption. but a strange kind of peace.

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Why is this heat so hot 😩

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Oh Meursault from Albert Camus's The Stranger... we're really in it now...

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today, or maybe yesterday

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You know, I should get more nonfiction books under my belt...

literary kinsey scale time

i’m just curious what mix of fiction and nonfiction the average tumblrina is consuming

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I know people armchair diagnose Meursault as autistic, but I'm thinking my personal arm chair diagnosis would be psychopathy. He easily charms Emmanuel, Céleste, Marie, and Raymond. He doesn't really dig into active manipulation, but sticks with people who want to associate themselves positively in his life.

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"I turned my chair around and set it down like the tobacconist's because I found it was more comfortable that way. I smoked a couple of cigarettes, went inside to get a piece of chocolate, and went back to the window to eat it." - Camus, 22

What an icon.

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No wonder Meursault from "The Stranger" has a Rosespanner Workshop Fixer ID.

Man leaves work for a late lunch, jumps onto a firetruck and then pulls his friend up with him, goes to ANOTHER friend's restaurant to eat there super fast while drinking coffee, goes home to sleep off a hangover, wakes up, smokes a cigarette, goes to a streetcar, then manages to get back to work during the afternoon in an office he complains is too hot.

JEEZ LOUISE! MEURSAULT I THINK YOU NEED TO SLOW TF DOWN-

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"Then a truck came toward us with its chains rattling and its engine backfiring. Emmanuel said, 'How 'bout it?' and I started running. The truck passed us and we ran after it. I was engulfed by the noise and dust. I couldn't see anything, and all I was conscious of was the sensation of hurtling forward in a mad dash through cranes and winches, masts bobbing on the horizon and the hulls of ships alongside us as we ran. I was first to grab hold and take a flying leap. Then I reached out and helped Emmanuel scramble up. We were out of breath; the truck was bumping around on the uneven cobblestones of the quay in a cloud of dust and sun. Emmanuel was laughing so hard he couldn't breathe." - Camus, 25-26

STOP I CAN'T HE'S SO SILLY! HE CHASED AFTER A TRUCK JUST OFF OF EMMANUEL SAYING SOMETHING SO SO VAGUE AND MEURSAULT IS INSTANTLY JUST 'oui, let us chase after a truck and hop on.' HE'S-

(Patrice) Meursault from The Stranger is genuinely so cute???

"I hoisted myself up next to her. It was nice, and, sort of joking around, I let my head fall back and rest on her stomach....We lay on the float for a long time, half asleep. When the sun got too hot, she dove off and I followed. I caught up with her and put my arm around her waist, and we swam together. She laughed the whole time." - (Camus, 20).

Like dude??? Please?

This may be me completely and utterly blinded by my gacha loving ass enjoying Meursault from Limbus Company (to the point I made Shiloh), but this just seems like a sweet and genuine moment I wasn't expecting from the book considering I was told it was going to be very hedonistic.

Granted, I'm VERY early on in this book but still! Unexpected cuteness from Meursault that I can maybe expect later in the funny literature game given what they did between Lin Daiyu and Hong Lu.

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(Patrice) Meursault from The Stranger is genuinely so cute???

"I hoisted myself up next to her. It was nice, and, sort of joking around, I let my head fall back and rest on her stomach....We lay on the float for a long time, half asleep. When the sun got too hot, she dove off and I followed. I caught up with her and put my arm around her waist, and we swam together. She laughed the whole time." - (Camus, 20).

Like dude??? Please?

This may be me completely and utterly blinded by my gacha loving ass enjoying Meursault from Limbus Company (to the point I made Shiloh), but this just seems like a sweet and genuine moment I wasn't expecting from the book considering I was told it was going to be very hedonistic.

Granted, I'm VERY early on in this book but still! Unexpected cuteness from Meursault that I can maybe expect later in the funny literature game given what they did between Lin Daiyu and Hong Lu.

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His name is PATRICE!?

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A poem that lingers in my brain right now is "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised."

I'll admit - I'm a selfish person. I want those ideals of comfort and believing I'm powerless to think that I will never have the power to change anything when that is simply untrue.

My white face speaking up in some way, shape, or form could help. I could very easily make a TikTok or a Tumblr or a Facebook or an Instagram or a X or a BluSky- but I don't.

I don't because I am a selfish person who desires my safety and can't really speak that I care about other's safety while I horde my own.

"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" speaks out against this very thought process. "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" insists that people will not be recognized as individuals, in parts, or a particular stand out. A revolution is a group.

A revolution is a band of people. A linking chain that dares fight against the system that tries to convince them that these are chains of jailing, and not links of community.

The revolution is not you. Is not your mother. Is not your father. Is not your grandparents. Is not your aunts and uncles and cousins.

The revolution is a group that you must be willing to join to fight against those keeping the group down and controlled.

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do me a solid and just reblog this saying what time it is where you are and what you’re thinking about in the tags.

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Hate when you're trying to read something and all of a sudden the imagery and actions on the page that a character is doing causes you to have a panic attack like you're the one committing to the actions.

Anyways "The Man Who Lived Underground" short story by Richard Wright is a fascinating story about materialsm and the disturbing nature of police and crime in general.

One of the most poignant themes in my opinion is "The Inherent Guilt You Have When You're Born." The use of the song in the beginning used to frame this with how some Christian denominations insist that one must always make up for the fact that they were born is utterly gut wrenching to the point where I was even burping and dry heaving as I read the story.

The dead baby, the beatings of non-guilty parties as Fred takes glee in their suffering, the reprimand against the church had me near tears.

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book about poetry brings up queer relationships and I'm like cool. brings up aspec people and I'm like OH MY CHEKXNSKSMLEMSKSKSK