{"id":49,"date":"2003-08-07T09:46:16","date_gmt":"2003-08-07T13:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=49"},"modified":"2005-12-04T08:37:23","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T13:37:23","slug":"camus-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/camus-redux","title":{"rendered":"Camus Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to “Tough Crowd,”<\/a> VM reader Tom Spurgeon<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

“Don’t you have it exactly backwards? I thought that Camus was in the resistance, and spent a lot of time after the war writing brutal letters and essays indicting the godly institutions for being cowards and supporting Nazi brutality.”<\/p>\n

And he’s right! But, at the age of 20 or so, I was a bunch less informed about this sorta thing, operating pretty much on the principle that the French were a bunch of “cheese-eating surrender monkeys,” and so I devalued any philosophy or art that they created.<\/p>\n

And so, to my French readers, I say, “Mea culpa!”<\/p>\n

Oh, wait: that’s Latin. How does “Mon mauvais!” sound?<\/p>\n

Well, anyway, to make it up to France, I’ll post a little slideshow of my trip to Paris from last October<\/a> when I get home this evening (as a break from stuffing envelopes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to “Tough Crowd,” VM reader Tom Spurgeon writes: “Don’t you have it exactly backwards? I thought that Camus was in the resistance, and spent a lot of time after the war writing brutal letters and essays indicting the godly institutions for being cowards and supporting Nazi brutality.” And he’s right! But, at the … <\/p>\n

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