The StrangerA young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character ... |
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... gaze with a sort of hungry passion . But I had to stop looking at them as Marie was shouting to me that we mustn't lose hope . " Certainly not , " I answered . My gaze fell on her shoulders , and I had a sudden longing to squeeze them ...
... gaze with a sort of hungry passion . But I had to stop looking at them as Marie was shouting to me that we mustn't lose hope . " Certainly not , " I answered . My gaze fell on her shoulders , and I had a sudden longing to squeeze them ...
Page 95
... gaze up at the patch of sky just overhead , I'd have got used to it by degrees . I'd have learned to watch for the passing of birds or drifting clouds , as I had come to watch for my lawyer's odd neckties , or , in another world , to ...
... gaze up at the patch of sky just overhead , I'd have got used to it by degrees . I'd have learned to watch for the passing of birds or drifting clouds , as I had come to watch for my lawyer's odd neckties , or , in another world , to ...
Page 136
... gaze up , and wait . ho This problem of a loophole obsesses me ; I am al- ways wondering if there have been cases of con- demned prisoners ' escaping from the implacable machinery of justice at the last moment , breaking through the ...
... gaze up , and wait . ho This problem of a loophole obsesses me ; I am al- ways wondering if there have been cases of con- demned prisoners ' escaping from the implacable machinery of justice at the last moment , breaking through the ...
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