Albert Camus

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• Wilfred Owen’s “Futility”

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  One of Wilfred Owen’s great poems is titled “Futility” (1918). It begins with a commander of men at war directing a couple of his soldiers to move into the sun the body of a recently dead comrade: Move him into the sun— Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke ...
  18 hours ago

• A novel approach to politics

  
  Inveresk Street Ingrate — Authority: 126
  Back to the Socialist Standard . There are long term plans to digitise every issue of the Socialist Standard going back to September 1904, in order that they can be made available online for anyone and everyone to read but, in the meantime, the work of posting articles of interest from old Socialist Standards ...
  2 days ago

• Clip Job: Five Songs About Books

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 143
  To judge by their tightly wound, country-tinged pop songs,  Olivia Mancini and the Mates aren’t shorting their craft. But even the most polished band needs its R&R, and this local act—featuring two former members of Washington Social Club— loves to curl up with a good book. That’s the impression, at ...
  3 days ago

• Autumn Leaves: Colorful Reminders

  
  Here We Are...with Luci — Authority: 114
  Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~ Albert Camus Savor the next thirty-nine days of autumn...Enjoy the orange, burgundy, and yellow leaves as they delicately swirl past your window, breathe the fresh air, bite into a crisp apple, plant your mums. Today, my friend, RayDeen, posted a note on her ...
  4 days ago

• 2010 will be a great spectacle even for the arty farty types

  
  Common Dialogue — Authority: 424
  South African sculptor Keith Calders Goalie bronze - one of eleven in his Footballer range FOOTBALL and art seem something of a misnomer, but for many the game of billions is the greatest art form of them all. While Picasso, arguably the greatest painter that ever lived, used brush strokes to bring his masterpieces ...
  1 week ago

• November 7 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 552
  On November 7: 1492 The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, struck the earth in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim , Alsace . 1655 The London Gazette , the oldest surviving journal , was first published. 1728   Captain James Cook , British naval officer, ...
  1 week ago

• Awatsihu, Philippe Forget’s New Opera

  
  An Irish Bromance — Authority: 140
  Philippe Forget is in rehearsals with his new Opéra, Awatsihu. It will première 12 November in Bron , near Lyon, France. And continue it’s run around Lyon, see below.. AWATSIHU, or how birds find their singing is an opera by Philippe Forget bathed in a pictorial world of Stephen Yver and directed by ...
  1 week ago

• Yesterday’s news

  
  Sherry Chandler — Authority: 129
  Sometimes when I am emotionally drained or intellectually exhausted from tedious work, I’ll pick up a random copy from my stack of old New Yorkers, leaf through them back to front, reading the cartoons and the poems and sometimes a few pages of an article that catches my eye. Sometimes the whole article.These back ...
  1 week ago

• Will Self on Burroughs and Junky

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 133
  From Will Selfs preface to the 2002 Penguin edition of William S. Burroughss Junky : [...] Certainly, Burroughs himself viewed the postwar era as a Gotterdammerung and a convulsive reevaluation of all values. With his anomic inclinations and his Mandarin intellect, Burroughs was in a paradoxical position vis a vis ...
  2 weeks ago

• Top 25 Favorite Writers

  
  Celsius1414 — Authority: 128
  Much like for my favorite movies , here is a list of my Top 25 favorite writers. Vladimir Nabokov Ray Bradbury JRR Tolkien Kurt Vonnegut Douglas Adams Mark Twain The rest in alphabetical order by last name: Robert Benchley Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Albert Camus Raymond Chandler Umberto Eco ...
  2 weeks ago

• What should a student learn from college? Why go to college?

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 547
  In the comments to yesterday’s post a discussion arose about the purpose of a college education, sparked by ”JOURNAL: I’m Young and Need Advice“ by John Robb, posted at his website Global Guerrillas, 26 October 2009.   Robb replies to an important question often asked by young people:  “What should I be ...
  2 weeks ago

• James Murdoch: News Corp. Has Always Been Rebellious | SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International [del.icio.us]

  
  Adrian Monck — Authority: 123
  LEtranger: "As a company, News Corp. was always the outsider, different from others. For example, when we moved our newspapers and the printing plant into this building here, it was not exactly in the center of the city. Also, BSkyB is not in the London city center, nor do we reside on the chic Corso in Rome. In Hong ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Outsider - A Critique

  
  Literary Jewels — Authority: 113
  Camus’ ‘The Outsider’ (The Stranger) is a novel projecting the dilemma of man in post-industrial society. He has not been carved out to be an ideal. On the other hand, he is just one of the ordinary, simply the run-of-the-mill member of humanity. He can’t lead the life like the heroes of the old. He accepts ...
  2 weeks ago

• Really, who cares?

  
  Lucky Rabbit's Foot — Authority: 121
  In the very first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet , Holmes confesses to Watson that he had no idea that the earth orbited the sun until Watson told him. As far as he knew, it was the other way around. Even though this seems contradictory to the omnivore of knowledge that the Sherlock Holmes character ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama: A Man Apart (Or titled "a basketball player who has been asked to bat"

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  Albert Camus was expert at describing a man apart, an existential man The Stranger, who didn’t belong in the society in which he found himself. He didn’t have emotional roots; in fact, this character was haunted by shadows -- the real and the metaphorical. He is the quintessential rebel challenging normative ...
  2 weeks ago

• Should Canadian Students Read Foreign Literature?

  
  Canada's World — Authority: 420
  Thomas Hodd of the University of Guelph-Humber issued a ringing declaration in the Toronto Star a few days ago: no high school student in this country should be assigned to kill a mockingbird. I’ll say. While the range of the northern mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos , does extend into southeastern Canada, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Symphonic Harmony and the Intellectually Fulfilled Atheist?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  Richard Dawkins has famously said, and on more than one occasion, that Darwin’s theory of evolution has made it possible for him to be, not just an atheist, but “an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” But what, exactly, does it mean to be “an intellectually fulfilled atheist”? I would like to suggest this ...
  3 weeks ago

• James Jeans and John Updike: A Scientist’s Postulation and a Literary Figure’s Reply

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  In 1930, physicist, mathematician, and astronomer James Jeans, wrote, in his book The Mysterious Universe , this: Standing on our microscopic fragment of a grain of sand, we attempt to discover the nature and purpose of the universe which surrounds our home in space and time. Our first impression is something akin ...
  3 weeks ago

• I Got My Swine Flu Shot Today (and Albert Camus Would Have Gotten His Swine Flu Shot Too)

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  “No man is an island. Each is a part of the main.” This afternoon my wife, my three and five year old daughters, and I all went to the doctor to get our swine flu shots. We got our regular flu shots and our pneumonia vaccinations last month. How about you? Will you be protecting yourself, your family, and your ...
  3 weeks ago

• “I dislike being a foot soldier”: Freddie the Atheist on the Awful Quiet of Actual Atheism

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  Freddie, at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen , is not a movement New Atheist. He’s just an atheist. And he likes it that way: [T]here is an elementary consonance between evangelist religion and evangelist antitheism that I find inarguable, that both insist that their adherents have duties and responsibilities ...
  4 weeks ago

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