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Many different absurd styles of life, posing no moral codes and including no judgements. Even monarchs and civil servants can be lucid. As long as one lives with what they have without speculating on what he doesn’t.

Those who live with eternity oppose those with lucidity. The eternals seemingly fearful of death. The lucid find strength and justification from death. Not out of pride, but out of sight of our affliction with irrelevancy.

A lucid conqueror conscious of their strength, lives to the height of that strength (living quantitfully) and the amazement that the human mind feels. Intelligence is sight of a human and their silence, revealing the value of human relations and the power/limitations their minds possess. Time is limited to death and this constitutes freedom.

The conqueror can have an absurd fate. Their focus to individuals, society, and time. With no eternal appeal, no victory, they claim a lost cause, ending with death, but striving regardless for victory, maybe achieving ephemeral victories. Choosing history, not eternity, as it feels more certain. The individual can do nothing but everything, the world crushes, leaders liberate one into action if lucidity is held

“Between everywhere and always, there is no compromise.”

“Helen’s Exile” concerns the Greeks and what they have championed compared to modernity. Camus says we have lost nature and, in turn, beauty.