Art requires both acceptance and rejection

Again, Camus, really awesome work! It is no wonder you won the Nobel for literature just one year after publication. To think that the works of Camus (among others, Nietzsche, Jung, etc.) had been in circulation for almost 50 years during my Christian belief and pretend leadership in college astounds me. Though I think it was important to go through “as if” still how could I have been permitted to think religiously, merely transcendentally, when these new peaks and valleys of thought had already been explored and documented so well? Bah. It is not too late. At 42 it is surely not too late. I shall live to 100 to make up for it for I am still in a new infancy.

This work is incredibly dense in that most every sentence requires my utmost attention. As it is also an historical account chronologically on the development of philosophical thinking and application thereof to every age, some storage of the subtle changes in dialectics in time is needed for perspective later on. This is one of those works with very few pages missing underlines and often entire pages highlighted by me.

Upon reflection, I was in touch with an acute sense of my temporality. And of the current age’s. An evolution of thinking will come again. When it is required. When current thinking is taken to it’s absolute limits. If that takes another 50 or 400 years, it is no time at all. I am humbled and challenged in a most appropriate way to live rightly by my standards. And to create.