Lauralee Hurst > Recent Status Updates

The right amount of pretension and confusion. I like it so far.

My present for passing quals was the penguin little black classics collection. I’m having the time of my life (but pausing here because there’s only so many poems about death I can read at a time).

what is happening

I need a study guide for this LOL

Tiptoeing my way into philosophy with this one. I’ve wanted to understand Camus’s absurdism more and more after I loved reading The Stranger a while back. I’d say he had a pretty clean definition in the first essay, “The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”

Reading this one with Luke — going to take us forever to finish it because it’s so boring lol

incredible