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I just finished reading this book, and I feel like I completely missed the point. What was the message supposed to be?

>> No.2241071

Well it's all pretty much about how you should learn to Google because this is such an extremely popular book and the internet is just bursting with explanations and criticisms of it.

>> No.2241082
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This week's Stranger thread seems a little late.

>> No.2241085

"Fuck le establishment."

>> No.2241163

adjusting to indifference, embracing mediocrity, deluding yourself into a more desireable situation, harnessing the ability to manipulate your perspective, seperating yourself from your surroundings, etcetc

>> No.2241182

There is no point. That's the point. Absurdism is thinly veiled existentialism.

>> No.2241187

>>2241182
which is thinly veiled nihilism.

>> No.2241190
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>>2241082
Sauce?

>> No.2241199

do they make british kids read this shit in high school or something? why are there so many threads about it? no one in america gives a shit about this book.

>> No.2241201

>>2241190
Robert Sikoryak's "Masterpiece Comics".

>> No.2241211

Enduring the burden of life. Learning to enjoy it since it is inescapable.

>> No.2241232

>>2241199

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85TE0K5fgJM

WELL.

>> No.2241233

>>2241069

The message is that if you don't cry when your mom dies you can't shoot brown people.

>> No.2241235

>>2241232
lmao, more proof camus is shit!

>> No.2241243

>>2241235

look at how he plays with his belt when he says, `ah, the stranger`

>> No.2241253

>>2241243
Bush is DTF for Camus' and his sexy French cigarette.

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>>2241253
But then again, who isn't?