Leslie Marmon Silko, 1979 letter collected in The Delicacy and Strength of Lace edited by Anne Wright (1985)

I love Camus so much. I read and reread The Plague. I enjoy the Notebooks, though sometimes he seems so wary of women and love I feel he is too wise about life. He perhaps needed to know the blue coast was there, was possible, in order to go so deeply into that windy chill winter of the Algerian plague city— somehow I understood that “place”

— Leslie Marmon Silko

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I love Camus so much. I read and reread The Plague. I enjoy the Notebooks, though sometimes he seems so wary of women and love I feel he is too wise about life. He perhaps needed to know the blue coast was there, was possible, in order to go so deeply into that windy chill winter of the Algerian plague city— somehow I understood that “place”" in the context of "Leslie Marmon Silko, 1979 letter collected in The Delicacy and Strength of Lace edited by Anne Wright (1985)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Albert Camus

About Albert Camus

Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French Pied-Noir author, absurdist philosopher and winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature.