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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... told him I was quite prepared to go ; but really I didn't care much one way or the other . He then asked if a " change of life , ” as he called it , didn't appeal to me , and I answered that one never changed his way of life ; one life ...
... told him I was quite prepared to go ; but really I didn't care much one way or the other . He then asked if a " change of life , ” as he called it , didn't appeal to me , and I answered that one never changed his way of life ; one life ...
Page 59
... told me I looked like a mourner at a funeral , and I certainly did feel very limp . She was wearing a white dress and had her hair loose . I told her she looked quite ravishing like that , and she laughed happily . On our way out we ...
... told me I looked like a mourner at a funeral , and I certainly did feel very limp . She was wearing a white dress and had her hair loose . I told her she looked quite ravishing like that , and she laughed happily . On our way out we ...
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... told him . Everybody has that wish at times . But that had no more importance than wishing to be rich , or to swim very fast , or to have a better - shaped mouth . It was in the same order of things . I was going on in the same vein ...
... told him . Everybody has that wish at times . But that had no more importance than wishing to be rich , or to swim very fast , or to have a better - shaped mouth . It was in the same order of things . I was going on in the same vein ...
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