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[Martin]

Camus is not a band or brand to be in to.

"are you into it" generally means "do you like it"

 

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[bianconero]

Like is not a word I would use when discussing one of the most significate writers and thinkers of the last century.

 

[Martin]

Which word then?

 

[bianconero]

I believe the ones I've used already.

 

[Martin]

So what is the appeal of Camus?

 

[bianconero]

Clarity of prose, thought and narative pupose.

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

pupose?

 

[bianconero]

pupose?

Oh god, the baas are here with the horned highbrows.

Yes, well done you spotted a mistake. Now there's a good boy, go and shit in another field.

 

[Martin]

Clarity of prose, thought and narative pupose.

So The Plague, what was the purpose there? Or the thought.

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

how to deal with the nazis

 

[bianconero]

So The Plague, what was the purpose there? Or the thought.

If you have read it, and I do believe you have, and have not understood it, then who am I to try and improve on Camus by presuming to explain that which he had taken several hundrens of pages so artfully writing.

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

"writting" is a noun and therefore it is rather ungrammatically correct of you to have it preluded by an adverb

 

[Martin]

If you have read it, and I do believe you have, and have not understood it, then who am I to try and improve on Camus by presuming to explain that which he had taken several hundrens of pages so artfully writing.

Yes, that's the problem. I don't get existentionalists at all. And when it gets explained to me it doesn't get any more convincing. Worst of all I think was a Sartre book I tried to read. The best I could piece together is that the character hated his life, but his whining was unbearable and I didn't finish it.

 

[bianconero]

"writting" is a noun and therefore it is rather ungrammatically correct of you to have it preluded by an adverb

Are you sure?
Could it not be an adjective?

 

[bianconero]

Yes, that's the problem. I don't get existentionalists at all. And when it gets explained to me it doesn't get any more convincing. Worst of all I think was a Sartre book I tried to read. The best I could piece together is that the character hated his life, but his whining was unbearable and I didn't finish it.

As I wrote, he is not for you.

 

[Martin]

Anything else you like besides Camus that might be more "for me"?

 

[bianconero]

Javier Marias.

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

Are you sure?
Could it not be an adjective?

artful yes. artfully? most certainly not

 

[bianconero]

artful yes. artfully? most certainly not

Are you sure?

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

Adv.1.artfully - in an artful manner; "her foot pointed artfully toward tapering toes"
2.artfully - in a disingenuous manner; "disingenuously, he asked leading questions abut his opponent's work"disingenuously

3.

artfully - in an artful manner; "he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced"; "had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?"foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily, craftily, cunningly