Jonah Marcus > Recent Status Updates

I am realizing I should probably lock in on prelims so no more doing all the problems

Im in the mood where this type of book is making me despise humanity

doing all the problems

Im back at it

Its so crazy the last public beheading in french algeria was in 1939

Using a criminal trial to talk about existential issues is genius (kafka)

The description of him as a swirling river of colors was awesome

The shooting section was really compelling - the discription of how Meursault's view of the beach changes was so cool.

Meursault is/wants to be a "pure externality"?

Def colonial - All the Pieds-noirs are described in some individual way (the beautiful woman, the old man, the soccer player...) while the arabs are only ever described as arabs.

This seems a bit heavy-handed so far but I am liking it. Ch2 was really cool - just a dude drifting around doing random stuff. Is the dog and the old man a master-slave dialectic thing?

I wish the author understood math better.

a-b\neq b-a is a poor example of non-commutativity, and the elementary proof of the PNT is not a particularly helpful proof (although it is interesting)