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Adventures of the badge with the face of Albert Camus #1

Shop assistant: Who’s that?
Me: Albert Camus.
SA: Who?
Me: He’s a philosopher.
SA: What?
Me: A philosopher.
*shop assistant stares blankly*
Me: He’s a writer.
SA: Oh. Does he write poetry?
Me: No.
SA: What does he write?
Me: Philosophy, fiction.
*very long pause*
SA: Ha,ha, I’m such an airhead!

A Very Short Introduction to the Absurd, My Absurd Moment, and Lester Burnham as Absurd Hero…

Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus was one of those books I attacked with dog-ears and pen marks. Whole pages are underlined in my well-thumbed copy, which I revisited when writing my novel manuscript Smoke & Dancing, and recently for my thesis. I think about my own steps to lucidity, when I acknowledged life’s inherent contradictions, [...]