
Finding Meaning in Desperate Times
To The Best Of Our Knowledge
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The Stranger by Albert Camuse
Kamu's mother was a cleaning lady, and she had a vocabulary of 400 words. It was astonishing that someone from this background would grow up to be a really famous writer. Do you think the stranger was kamu's great novel, great book? I think he was scared of its powers. He was very upset when a high school kid killed his classmate. And among the reasons he mentioned having read the stranger is because it's very dangerous.
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