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Unlike the silent cosmos described by Albert Camus, the Bible boldly declares ... The Plague, The Stranger, and The Myth of Sisyphus. Then came a moment no one saw coming. Camus asked Mumma if he ...
Opinion
Be Like Sisyphus
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” This is a bleak model for those in lamentation over our current moment. But Camus’ brand of pessimism is apt, simultaneously acknowledging that sense of being ...
But Camus’ brand of pessimism is apt ... Americans are not in the world of Sisyphus or in the world of those who face imminent death because of who they are. But these stories do tell us ...
THE work of reducing poverty in the land is like letting drops of water fall on a rock. You hope to make a crack, but you do not know when.