Albert Camus – Philosopher of Absurdity and RevoltCamus’s book The Myth of Sisyphus belongs to the philosophy of absurd. Sisyphus, a character of Greek-Latin mythology, has been condamned to always roll a boluder to the top of a mountain, boulder that then rolls back to the valley, symbolizing the tragic existance of man… read more
So many nights I hear raining,
I listen to the matter crying…
I’m alone and think
About lake houses are to sink… read more
Maybe a lot of you have read Lewis Carroll’s book Alice in Wonderland. Little Alice meets a miraculous cat that smiles and slowly disappears, starting with the tail and ending with the smile… “I have seen many cats whitout a smile, but I have never seen a smile witout a cat !… It’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen !” Alice thought. So amazed were the phyisicists who, due to the birth of Theory of Relativity, have farewell to the luminiferous aether. Indeed, the principle… read more
In “nature”, man is of course a simple animal endowed with the greatest intelligence but this sentence seems to us to be so irrelevant as we were to say that in its “nature” and perspective, a statue is a simple chiseled block of stone. The comparasion highlights enough the sin that biology is guilty of when it attacks… read more
I have haeard that hysterical women say they are sick of palette and fiddle-bow, of poets that are always gay, for everybody knows or else should know that if nothing drastic is done Aeroplane and Zeppelin will come out… read more
I have never understood the paradoxes of my friend Teofil. He judeges all in reverse; in every case where we are accustomed to giving an explanation that we have prepared, without having to worry about being original, Teofil finds an entirely unusual explanation. He’s extravagant in everything… read more
Drowsy birds at even gliding, round their nests alight, in among the branches hiding – Dear, good night !
Silence through the forest creeping, lullaby the river sighs; in the garden flowers sleeping – Shut your eyes… read more
The purpose of ancient travelers in Babylon was the Tower of Babel. Artists rushed to paint it with vague ancient clues. The tower appears at first in the Roman era, in Saint Savin’s mural paintings, in the mosaics of the Monreale cathedral, Sicily, in the sculpture at the Dogi Palace of Venice… read more
Last night it seemed to me that I was in a strange world without bright colours – black trees against a cloudy sky, black shadows against white walls… And I got afraid and started to cry for help. And… just in a story, coloured pencils marching one by one to me… read more
Wouldn’t this old world be better if the folks we meet would say – “I know something good about you !” and treat us just in that way ? Wouldn’t it be fine and dandy if each handclasp, fond and true, carried with it this assurance… read more
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