If so, why?
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None — 6 years ago(February 17, 2020 01:48 PM)
He played in goal until TB put a stop to all that…
Any hopes Camus had of playing serious football were dashed after he contracted TB. There was no cure for the condition at that time and attacks resulted in long and painful periods of bed-rest. Before his illness, Camus played in goal for the Racing Universitaire Algerios (RUA) junior team. Match reports often had high praise for Camus, who played bravely and with passion. -
dbentley666 — 6 years ago(February 17, 2020 02:08 PM)
He smoked way too much. The first time I visited Paris I bought myself packets of Gauloises and Gitanes and smoked them (eyes watering) and tried to think existentialist thoughts. No wonder Camus got TB!
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Platonic_Caveman — 6 years ago(February 17, 2020 04:15 PM)
That’s because he played football…
But it was the spritely
futbol
of Europe, not the strong hulking football of America.
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MortSahlFan — 6 years ago(February 17, 2020 01:28 PM)
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Babu Frik — 6 years ago(February 17, 2020 08:45 AM)
Sartre will always be relevant, lest we forget. We must always be vigilant against illigical leftwing thinking and the best way to ensure it never infects us is to explore and criticize it. It needs to be mocked and its proponents vilified.
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dbentley666 — 6 years ago(February 17, 2020 11:51 AM)
Thank you all for your responses. It is a little depressing that Sartre seems to not be too relevant, at any rate on this board, but I believe his time will come (again). I agree with the poster who argued that Camus was self-contradictory (I think Sartre said Camus was a nightingale who thought he was an owl), but then so is Sartre. It's just that Sartre sees this more clearly. I like Sartre because he bracingly argues that we must commit ourselves to a life of freedom. In these ghastly postmodern times he is like a breath of fresh air!
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MissDonna — 6 years ago(February 17, 2020 07:58 PM)
Thank you all for your responses. It is a little depressing that Sartre seems to not be too relevant, at any rate on this board, but I believe his time will come (again). I agree with the poster who argued that Camus was self-contradictory (I think Sartre said Camus was a nightingale who thought he was an owl), but then so is Sartre. It's just that Sartre sees this more clearly. I like Sartre because he bracingly argues that we must commit ourselves to a life of freedom. In these ghastly postmodern times he is like a breath of fresh air!
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dbentley666 — 6 years ago(February 18, 2020 02:01 PM)
A lot of people these days would say that Simone de Beauvoir is far more interesting, but I'm not sure about that. The Second Sex is a really hard book to read, mainly because she sounds so different from today's feminists.
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MissDonna — 6 years ago(February 18, 2020 02:08 PM)
Well, there's this new algorithm the Neilson Ratings System is using, and it makes recommendations based upon the consumer's interests. I think all companies do this in other ways, so I'm not even sure I wanna read that book you've suggested.
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dbentley666 — 6 years ago(February 18, 2020 02:21 PM)
I have nothing but respect for the Nelson Ratings System. It is because of that system that I was exposed to such gripping narratives as the Twilight series, Eat, Pray, Love, and Fifty Shades of Goy (a coming-of-age story about a Jewish intellectual who encounters anti-Semitism in the workplace).
