Quotes and remarks while reading from the translation by James Wood (Penguin)
[Intro]
"...religion is all hypocrisy and nonsense."
Grand Inquisitor section of The Brothers Karamazov
"Camus cannot know that God does not exist;...Camus proposes awareness itself."
"...oppose the world's meaninglessness with our revolt, our freedom, and our passion."
One of the most poignant observations by Mr Wood: "Aware that life is futile, Camus feels himself a stranger to it." A certain callback to The Stranger, methinks.
He reproduces the part about the banality of routine (pg. 19), and notes that both Henri Bergson and Camus jeered modern industrial society. He ends the para with "...life is a comic dumb-show."
The titular myth is of course the drudgery of futile labor that Sisyphus is cursed with, rolling a boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down, for eternity. Eternity, of course is the life span of humans - there is no other experience to look forward to once we die.
"...and what is Sisypheanism but a furious metaphor?"
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