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    “Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”

    Albert Camus, La peste

    • How’s the book?_niko
    • Always good. I’ve read it a few times. I’m blessed/cursed with the memory of gnat so I can reread books and they still feel fresh each timeGnash
    • this quote plagues me. what does he mean by "crash down on our heads from a blue sky" - does he mean religion?hotroddy
    • This should ‘splain it;
      https://www.theguard…
      Gnash

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