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Author Topic: The Day Tripper intro, ad nauseum (10-06-03)  (Read 5824 times)

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Oct 6th
« Reply #15 on: October 09, 2003, 07:45:25 am »
Whore Hay,

It's just a Camus reference.  I guess it's also by association a Cure reference, but mostly it's about L'Etranger (The Stranger) a fine novel in which an existential hero ends up killing an Arab on the beach in Algiers just because.
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« Reply #16 on: October 09, 2003, 03:01:30 pm »
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Whore Hay,

It's just a Camus reference.  I guess it's also by association a Cure reference, but mostly it's about L'Etranger (The Stranger) a fine novel in which an existential hero ends up killing an Arab on the beach in Algiers just because.


Well, technically the sun was in Meursault's eyes.
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« Reply #17 on: October 09, 2003, 06:12:58 pm »
Ah, Camus. I read The Plague once and then I stopped reading it in the middle.
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« Reply #18 on: October 09, 2003, 06:17:09 pm »
I thought he killed him because, what was the line.... "he did me dirt" or something like that.
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« Reply #19 on: October 09, 2003, 06:23:58 pm »
I liked The Plague better than The Stranger.  

And I thought Mersault killed the Arab because he thought the Arab had done him dirt, but later realized he was mistaken.
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« Reply #20 on: October 09, 2003, 06:31:57 pm »
I was pretty sure it was because the sun was in his eyes, too.  I'll have to dig up my copy when I get home.
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« Reply #21 on: October 09, 2003, 09:10:00 pm »
If I'm recalling my high-school AP English correctly, it's all of these and none of these -- Meursault comes up with a lot of this rationalization afterwards, but at the time he really just did it for no reason. Very existential.
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« Reply #22 on: October 10, 2003, 12:30:37 am »
Yeah, the whole point was that there was no point.

He killed him and then tried to find a reason why afterwards.

But I haven't read it in fifteen years, so I can't recall any lines directly.
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« Reply #23 on: October 10, 2003, 02:24:31 am »
Man, I love this place.  I couldn't tell you how we got from Pat Reynolds to Camus, but I'm glad we did.
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« Reply #24 on: October 10, 2003, 04:41:53 am »
I guess that was my fault.  Camus does seem to come up a lot on this board, though.  

Someone mentioned the Myth of Sisyphus last month, which reminded me of a short play I wrote back in college called "Mrs. Sisyphus" about a woman wondering what was keeping her husband. I think giving her the first name of "Penelope" was pushing it a little, in hindsight.

Anyway, you just can't keep the French down.  Existentialism and Deconstruction comes up a lot in relation to this particular cartoon strip.  I blame Onstad.
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