Who's this "Albert Kaymuss" Lord Pissypants just started talking about?

[Proud2BAmurkin]

:shrug:

[Kagemusha]

1. Uh, Camus?

Existentialist writer, wrote a famous book about killing an Arab and not feeling Christian guilt.

[Bobbieo]

4. Oh my God!!! - Albert (Camoo) Camus

[niyad]

2. PLEASE tell me he was not referring to albert camus!!! and how would

he even have heard of him? the man doesn't read, has no intellectual curiousity. . . in what context was his name mentioned?

[Proud2BAmurkin]

3. Evidently it has something to do with this

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/11/060811231406.rsxjfr54.html

[fishwax]

26. I love how they say "bush quoted camus" back in 2005, as if he came

up with the reference on his own :rofl:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. Supposedly he's reading "The Stranger" while on vacation.

:eyes: Reading... maybe. Understanding? not a chance.

[niyad]

6. is he at least holding the book right side up?? and what the HELL is he

STILL doing on vacation?

[existentialist]

12. Don't you remember?

The man has "to get on with life."

[MADem]

13. But likely not in the original French...nt

[smokey nj]

21. I'm sure the dumb bastard can't read it in English either.

[MADem]

27. I love these friggin Google ads, sometimes they get it half right!

There was one on this page that had a recording of Camus reading L'etranger from a
1954 French radio broadcast!!

[existentialist]

8. Just because someone wrote some prepared lines with references that *

almost certainly butchered is nothing that should cause anyone to re-evaluate *'s 9lack of) intellectual stature.

[earthboundmisfit]

9. Sure, I believe * was reading "The Stranger"

- the "Illustrated Classics" comic version...

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Dunno... Mebbe he'll read Peep's Diary next?

About a cute little chicken?

[Poiuyt]

23. Peep's!

Good one

:rofl:

[MADem]

29. Way more compelling than that Goat book, I'll bet

http://photo.phoenixfeather.net.nyud.net:8090/album_info/peeps_show2/easter_rainbow.jpg


But say, we need to WATCH it when that boy starts ta readin'....remember what happened when he picked up that thar goat book!!!!!

[daleo]

10. Bush reading Camus?

I can't even picture that as a Monty Python skit.

[EFerrari]

19. It's going to be the second scene of my next play

"Bush in Paris"

:rofl:

[Turbineguy]

11. That reminds me of Bill Cosby's

Hoof and mouth disease story.

"Any way we can get out of it?" (getting shot)

"Sure, wipe that foam off your mouth!"

[colorado thinker]

14. Did he actually pronounce it "kaymuss"?

This was a Rove plot to make Bush seem like a deep thinker, but it backfired if he mispronounced Camus . . .:rofl:

[ChicagoRonin]

15. Um, anyone read that book?

It involves the main character shooting an Arab.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

18. and being executed for it...

I bet he gives up before he gets to that part. Laura will be tired of hearing.. "what does this word mean?"






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[Hardrada]

20. Yes and getting tried and being punished for it too.

[smokey nj]

22. I read it in high school.

[MADem]

30. The Cliff Notes, if anyone's interested

Jesus, it's been eons since I read that book. And Fauntledunce is just getting around to it NOW? What, did he sleep through his literature class at Phillips?

http://www.bookrags.com/notes/str/SUM.html

[ThatsMyBarack]

16. What about My Pet Goat?

:shrug:

[EFerrari]

17. Do we have any evidence whatsoever that Junior ever read

AN EYE CHART on his own?

:rofl:

[smokey nj]

24. I guess he's saving Proust for his winter vacation.

[Odin2005]

25. LOL, Bush can't even read My Pet Goat and he expects us to beleive...

...he read up on Albert Camus? :rofl:

[SoCalDem]

28. Um... I wonder if he knows it's a book about Ay-Rabs...

Of course inside the dust jacket is a different book... probably a Larry Mc Murtry western... about times when "gals" knew their place (in the saloons, draped over the shoulders of the gamblin' men) and the men were manly men (well, some of them were men who preferred manly men, but I digress)

[TahitiNut]

31. It's ironic in a bizarre way, I think.

I can't imagine that Smirk selected that reading on his own. Somebody has a bizarre sense of humor. Not only is Camus about 90 degrees out of phase with Junior's cartoonish "world view," the book is about a character that has at least one of Junior's characteristics - a total lack of empathy. The difference is that, in L'etranger, Meursault at least contemplates his own condition. Junior sure doesn't. I've always quibbled with the English translation of the title, and personally think of it as "The Alien" or "The Foreigner." Meursault isn't quite human - he's an alien to some of the core elements that make us human. It wouldn't be quite accurate to say he's emotionless, but he feels no human attachment/connection. His relationships are based on something else far more pragmatic and self-serving. That his victim was an Arab is emblematic of the 'foreigner' theme in a sort of counter-point to Meursault's alienation to the species.

Junior too is not really human - he's really missing even more components. Somebody sure was whacked to get him to read that. There ain't a snowball's chance in Dante's Inferno he'll comprehend even a part of it.

[kestrel91316]

32. Bush wouldn't know Camus if he came up and bit him in the a--.

I have read his book The Plague, and it's one of my favorites (with my microbiology background and interest in public health issues, lol). Also, I have BEEN TO CAMUS' GRAVE. He is buried in the lovely village of Lourmarin in southern France, where I stayed on vacation in 2001. I actually stayed in the tiny apartment in the village where a writer who did Camus' bio stayed while interviewing Camus' daughter.

LOVELY village. I did not want to come home. I could have stayed right there, in that apartment, making my daily forays into the countryside and shopping along the narrow streets and eating at the many fine restaurants forever.

I better stop hijacking this thread.............sigh.

Kaymuss. What a moran.

[nealmhughes]

33. Turns out he didn't actually read it: Jenna and Barbie had a CD of the

Cure playing while burning black candles to keep Barbara Sr. alive full moon, and during the black magic, he heard "Standing on a beach with a gun in my hand, staring at the sea, staring at the sand, staring at the Arab lying dead on the ground..." and later asked them about the cool song....