[HN Gopher] Camus's New York Diary (1946) ___________________________________________________________________ Camus's New York Diary (1946) Author : amanuensis Score : 18 points Date : 2023-04-13 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.theparisreview.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.theparisreview.org) | zvmaz wrote: | I recently read The Plague by Camus about an epidemic happening | in colonial Oran, Algeria. I sometimes smiled at how | underwhelming it was in comparison to what the COVID pandemic | revealed about society and human nature in times of total | catastrophe. | standardUser wrote: | "A stroll to Staten Island" | | Pardon me? Like, through New Jersey? Hell of a stroll! | zabzonk wrote: | perhaps he took a ferry? and isn't there a bridge? things may | get lost in translation. | zabzonk wrote: | > The heart trembles before so much remarkable inhumanity. | | i can see what he is getting at, though i have to say that on my | own visits to NY (from london, uk) i often thought there was too | much humanity! | disqard wrote: | > Finally a country that really takes care of its children. | | I mentally shed a tear when I reached this part. | world2vec wrote: | Something about Camus' succinct but elegant way of writing that | is very attractive to me. That man was just too cool. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-04-13 23:00 UTC)