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Thank you Benjamin! I have in fact published two collections, but sales to date have been on the disappointing side :)

What Pooh Might Have Said to Dante makes for some excellent bedtime reading, let me tell you.

Thank you Rlotz! I was aiming more for the bathroom demographic, but I am delighted to hear that it also works for bedroom readers.

I'll keep trying rooms of the house, and I'll let you know which ones work best. (I feel like a newlywed...)

I should have anticipated the way the conversation would develop, and I would like to say that I take no responsibility for this metaphor. It is its own figure of speech, I do not control it.

I take full responsibility of this metaphor; I have copyrighted it, and several lawsuits are pending.

Phew. I can't sufficiently express my gratitude, and I wish you the best of luck with your various court cases!

I think George W. Bush toted this book along to (1) give the impression that he read at all and (2) to give the impression that he had carefully considered the French experience in Algiers before his misbegotten Iraq adventures. In truth, I'm sure he never thought about the French-Algerian War; there's even a chance he'd never even heard of Algeria.

He consistently claimed that he read 80-100 books a year, and listed them. I wonder if he has a stealth account on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ? I would love to see his reviews.

Manny wrote: "He consistently claimed that he read 80-100 books a year, and listed them. I wonder if he has a stealth account on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ? I would love to see his reviews."

Hey, I can claim that I am a statuesque blonde who speaks perfect French and can easily grasp string theory. I bet his wife came up with the list. I can barely read 140 books a year and I'm neither president of the United States nor dyslexic, much less both simultaneously. George's dyslexia is what prompted his mother to found the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.

I suppose he could have read them in audiobook form while working out. I have this mental picture of Dubya at the Crawford ranch, chopping wood as he listens to L'Etranger on his iPod and expressionless Secret Service men watch in the background. But what are they listening to?

PS I'm trying to work out which part of your claim is false. You're not a real blonde, right?

How is it translated into English, as The Stranger or as The Foreigner... the ambiguity of the original may be lost.

I read it in French, but I think it's been translated into English both as "The Stranger" and as "The Outsider".

Manny wrote: "PS I'm trying to work out which part of your claim is false. You're not a real blonde, right?"

Not a blonde, not statuesque, lousy French, got lost after reading the third chapter of A Brief History of Time. I'm a strikeout on all fronts.

This all sounds very suspicious. I've been around the internet long enough not to believe everything people tell me.

Manny wrote: "This all sounds very suspicious. I've been around the internet long enough not to believe everything people tell me."

LOL!

Is this the same as The Outsider?

Yes, I believe the English translation has been called both that and The Stranger.

Thanks. Was about to start reading this but was not sure whether it's the same book. Googled about it but still wasn't sure. :)

Hi Manny,
Could you tell me what schools of thought are based on further development of Camus's absurdism?

I'm sorry Sudeep, I know very little about absurdism. Though if it helps, I have written a short poem on the subject...

Jass wrote: "Sudeep wrote: "Hi Manny,
Could you tell me what schools of thought are based on further development of Camus's absurdism?"

I believe WoMD may be the best known. There was a lot of histrionic lectu..."

What is WoMD?

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Francoise, I'm sure I don't need to remind you that, according to Camus, the only truly serious philosophical problem is whether the absurdity of existence entails the necessity of suicide. The comment above makes me feel that arguments in favour of suicide could well have been underestimated, but, should I decide not to kill myself, I will consider your interesting offer.

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Francoise, I'm still considering my options. Give me a day or two to think about it.

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Ce n'est pas le monde qui est absurde, ni la pensée humaine : l'absurde surgit lorsque le besoin humain de comprendre rencontre le caractère déraisonnable du monde (par example, les vendeurs de prêts sur ligne), lorsque à « mon appétit pour l'absolu et pour l'unité » répond « l'impossibilité de réduire ce monde à un principe rationnel et raisonnable. »

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Francoise, I know this is a very personal question, but are you a bot or a human? If you're a bot, I could improve your programming, and if you're human I could teach you something about the grammar of English. Let me know what I can do to assist.

Francoise wrote: "Me a woman who offers loan between particular and serious"

Hey, I'm pleased to hear you're human! But if you don't want your job to be given to a machine, you're going to have to raise your game. You're doing several things wrong. To start, you aren't even supposed to be on this site. You don't have any books listed on your profile, and all you're doing is trying to sell loans. So first up you need to look like a credible book reviewer, in order to gain people's trust before you attempt to sell them anything.

Next, and I suspect this is going to be a bigger problem, your English is so bad that you don't just sound unconvincing, I often can't even understand what you mean. Like, in your message above: what do you intend by "loan between particular and serious"?

I don't want to be discouraging. But you're just going to have to deal with these issues, they won't go away by themselves.