Language Liberalism Freethought Birds
Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.
If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
Albert Camus was born on this day in 1913, in Mondovi, Algeria. He spent a summer in Oran - where he witnessed an incident on the beach between a European and several Arabs which he later worked into The Stranger - and then moved to Paris just in time for WWII. I managed to go a long time without actually reading Camus (just reading about him), but this year I read The Plague and The Stranger. I wish I'd read him earlier.
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I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 8:47 AM, November 07, 2008
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->I haven't read much Camus at all, in fact, I'm not sure I've read anything but The Stranger (when I was in school, a long time ago, trust me!) but that scene where Mersault kills the Arab, the description of the sun hitting him in the eyes, has never left my menory. I still think of it at times when the sun shines painfully in my eyes.
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