Thursday, October 20, 2011

The Stranger - Journal #4

How in the world did I miss this one...

Anyway, here is what was going through my head the night before the group discussion:

“Then I felt like having a smoke. But I hesitated because I didn’t know if I could do it with Maman right there. I thought about it; it didn’t matter.” page 8

In the first part of the book, he has very few desires that he cannot achieve. Smoking, woman, sleep, food. As a result, the theory of the unconscious does not fully apply to him. Sure he can get hungry and the result would be him wanting to find food, but nothing that he wants is really barred from him in any way.

“I worked hard at the office today. The boss was nice. He asked me if I wasn’t too tired and he also wanted to know Maman’s age.” Page 25

“And, naturally, my boss thought about the fact that I’d be getting four days’ vacation that way, including Sunday, and he couldn’t have been happy about that” Page 19

Relaxed life. Plenty of vacation time and less work hours per week, but still very productive.

The Holocaust was a genocide program that killed six million european jews and millions of other people for different reasons.

“That evening Marie came by to see me and asked me if I wanted to marry her. I said it didn’t make any difference to me and that we could if she wanted to” (page 41)

People could have stopped the Holocaust. Thus, indifference is a societal inhibition.

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