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A. Camus
The Stranger
“Now, in the full glare of the morning sun, with everything shimmering in the heat haze, there was something inhuman, discouraging, about this landscape.“
“The sand was as hot as fire, and I could have sworn it was glowing red.”
“But the light hadn’t changed; it was pounding as fiercely as ever on the long stretch of sand that ended at the rock. For two hours the sun seemed to have made no progress; becalmed in a sea of molten steel.”
“Twice a day, at eleven and six, the old fellow takes his dog for a walk, and for eight years that walk has never varied.”
The Fall
“ Isn’t it the most beautiful negative landscape?”
“Just see on the left that pile of ashes they call a dune here, the grey dyke on the left, the livid beach at our feet and, in front of us, the sea looking like a weak lye-solution with the vast sky reflecting the colourless waters.”
“A flabby hell, indeed! “
“No human beings, above all, no human beings! You and I alone facing the planet at last deserted! “
“The sky is alive? (…) Those are the doves. Haven’t you noticed that the sky of Holland is filled with millions of doves, invisible because of their altitude, which flap their wings, rise or fall in unison, filling the heavenly space with dense multitudes of greyish feathers carried hither and thither by the wind.”
