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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Thanks everyone for the interesting comments over the last few days. I must try to find the time to read the Defoe, and also try some other Camus, as I have only read The Outsider and The Plague.
Great to read the Nobel Prize acceptance speech too, so thanks for that, Bookworm_Girl.
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Defoe. of course, is very different with a 17th century mindset. Still, he is remarkably and brilliantly detailed. Interestingly, he shows the futile insistence of human behaviour in the face of the calamity. I recall one instance where a man goes to extraordinary lengths to steal a purse of gold in the street. Yet he may be dead in hours after he takes it.