Quote Revelation
The quote from last week was from "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus (pronounced KAM-OO). Camus was an atheist philosopher/writer who wrote several works such as "the Plague", "the Fall" and "the Stranger".
posted by Jim Shultz @ 1:14 PM
2 Comments:
Hey Jim. I read the quote the day you posted it and couldn't write anything. I had no idea what the quote meant and I still don't, after reading and re-reading it. What do you think it means?
Thanks for coming by. I don't know what it means to be honest with you. I read it and found it to have some things that made sense, but ultimately (even within the essay) I am not totally sure where he is going with this. I would have to go back and read the essay again. I hate to be that glib, but I don't know what else to say.
I have noticed that most agree that beauty has an inhuman quality, as Camus does. It seems to me that he is trying to say that true beauty causes us to see things as they really are instead of with our own personal symbols we have assigned to it. In other words, when you THINK of a sunset, you have all sorts of attributes/symbols you would associate to "sunset". However, when you are struck by the true beauty of a real sunset, all of those symbols and attributes fall to the floor as you are struck by the sunset as it is in all its beauty. What do you think?
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