[HN Gopher] Camus's New York Diary (1946)
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       Camus's New York Diary (1946)
        
       Author : amanuensis
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2023-04-13 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | 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"
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       | 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.
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       | 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.
        
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