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improvesmorale in capeandcowl

eight. text.

Feb 12, 2011 20:20

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text sciencething February 13 2011, 02:01:23 UTC

Many a man is nihilistic in such a form, amongst others; I don't see how it's a joke to be one, or, more importantly, to be concerned that other people are offended by it.

text improvesmorale February 13 2011, 02:05:41 UTC

Yeah, but I wasn't serious.

text sciencething February 13 2011, 02:13:36 UTC

Oh. Good, then.

I thought you were secretly going all L’Étranger, which probably isn't too good for the psyche, all considering.

text improvesmorale February 13 2011, 02:22:07 UTC

Camus. Right. The guy who kills his mother. Or something.

text sciencething February 13 2011, 02:28:39 UTC

Or something, but I didn't mean in that way.

The murder, after all, was really the least important thing to happen to the protagonist.

text improvesmorale February 13 2011, 02:30:56 UTC

It's been a long time since high school English.

text sciencething February 13 2011, 02:38:24 UTC

Moral of the story is basically acceptance.

Do they teach the novel in the public school system? I'd figure the principles are far too un-American and irreligious to introduce into a classroom setting. I know that those of the year 2011 in my universe wouldn't dare show such intellectual smut like that to poor, impressionable adolescents.

text improvesmorale February 13 2011, 02:54:53 UTC

I got it my senior year. Some old dude with a smoker's voice, had this hard-on for French existentialism. Fuck if I remember any of the titles.

So what was the acceptance for? Death?

text sciencething February 13 2011, 03:22:18 UTC

At least he doesn't sound utterly boring.

More like acceptance of being-but-a-speck-of-dust-in-the-scope-of-the-universe. The protagonist learned that it doesn't matter if he doesn't give ten damns about himself or others, that only the passing physical sensations of life are truly notable, while all else means absolutely nothing. I think it's fitting.

text improvesmorale February 13 2011, 03:53:20 UTC

For me?

text sciencething February 13 2011, 04:00:45 UTC

For many people, in this particular situation. And you. Why should our actions here matter? Why should we invest ourselves emotionally for something that could potentially not mean anything at all? Is it worth pretending or deluding ourselves that this, this time and this place, is actual truth?

I don't subscribe to it, but I understand the logic behind it.

text improvesmorale February 13 2011, 14:53:27 UTC

You didn't think this place was real either, when you first arrived.

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