Maman died today...
Apparently we are to believe that President bush read Albert Camus' The Stranger over his vacation. Which I don't. But I'm willing to take the leap of faith for the sake of argument. this leads to question of why he read it. It's so...out of character. Possibilities include: 1) Remorseless Arab-killing drives the plot--which he has in common with the protagonist; 2) He had no idea what he was picking up, I mean it kinda sounds like it might be a western; 3) Bush has confronted the essential futility of his search for meaning in an absurd universe and has decided to forgoe the conventions of the mass of desperate men and live only true to his own central conceit without regard for the false notions of religion or society. Yeah, I don't think it's the last one either. Thoughts?
Labels: politics
posted by justin | 6:59 PM
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I doubt that he read it at all. Absurdity - the absurdity of his actions or the inherent absurdity of his presidency - doesn't seem to be something that occurs to the man and would, otherwise, weaken his philosophical position as a reality-maker.
Oh, by the way, it's the Codex Ivstinianvs as it was the emperor Justinian, not his uncle Justin or anyone named Justianus, that codified Roman law in late antiquity.
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