Camus, I love you, except when I'm writing about you.
I really want to read some of Camus' literature this summer. The Myth of Sisyphus was already gorgeous enough, and that was you know, philosophy, which I tend to have trouble understanding/being interested in reading unless it's pretty like Kierkegaard or Camus.
Anyway. I'm trying to write a paper about the question of philosophical suicide, which sucks, because the topic is interesting but if I'd chosen the Invisible Man prompt I could be done already, but whatever.
Anyway. Camus is pretty cool. This dude Gilbert Hardy says "Asked about his favorite words, Camus gave once the following list: world, pain, earth, mother, people, desert, honor, misery, summer, and sea."
And I really like that, the fact that he could give such a list. The ensuing examination of what it all meaaaaaans is a little loltastic and foreshadows Hardy's ultimate argument that Jesus is laughing at Camus because it's Camus' atheism which doesn't allow him to really find a solution to the absurd, but the list itself is supes cool.
So I think it's meme-time! List your ten favorite words (or just ten of your favorite words), whether they're favorites because of meaning, sound, fanciness, memory, or no reason at all.
1. giggle
2. ephemeral
3. silence
4. landscape
5. cosmos
6. anathema
7. origin
8. book
9. naufragio ('shipwreck' in Spanish...but not 'shipwreck.' It's not the same)
10. alas
Anyway. I'm trying to write a paper about the question of philosophical suicide, which sucks, because the topic is interesting but if I'd chosen the Invisible Man prompt I could be done already, but whatever.
Anyway. Camus is pretty cool. This dude Gilbert Hardy says "Asked about his favorite words, Camus gave once the following list: world, pain, earth, mother, people, desert, honor, misery, summer, and sea."
And I really like that, the fact that he could give such a list. The ensuing examination of what it all meaaaaaans is a little loltastic and foreshadows Hardy's ultimate argument that Jesus is laughing at Camus because it's Camus' atheism which doesn't allow him to really find a solution to the absurd, but the list itself is supes cool.
So I think it's meme-time! List your ten favorite words (or just ten of your favorite words), whether they're favorites because of meaning, sound, fanciness, memory, or no reason at all.
1. giggle
2. ephemeral
3. silence
4. landscape
5. cosmos
6. anathema
7. origin
8. book
9. naufragio ('shipwreck' in Spanish...but not 'shipwreck.' It's not the same)
10. alas