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bemildred

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3. Thanks, I'll get it.

Reply to Jim__ (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 7, 2013, 01:17 PM

Nov 2013

He has been a touchstone for me all my life.

Mme. Messud writes well herself.

Mme. De Beauvoir wrote "The Second Sex", and for that I will forgive her everything else.

In the difficult hour we are living, what else can I desire than to exclude nothing and to learn how to braid with white thread and black thread a single cord stretched to the breaking point. A. Camus ‘Return to Tipasa’

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Albert Camus -- forever modern [View all] bemildred Nov 2013 OP

Camus's "Algerian Chronicles" was recently translated into English. Jim__ Nov 2013 #1

I look forward to adding it to my book queue. HuckleB Nov 2013 #2

Thanks, I'll get it. bemildred Nov 2013 #3

My poster name namesake. The Stranger Nov 2013 #4

Avec plaisir. bemildred Nov 2013 #5