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Meursault finally crashing out >>>

118-119 beautiful storytelling.

Relatable.

“All I care about right now is escaping the machinery of justice, seeing if there’s any way out of the inevitable.”

😭

“But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me feel dizzy.”

The prosecutor is not messing around with Meursault omg

“We cannot blame him for this. We cannot complain that he lacks what it was not in his power to acquire. But here in this court the wholly negative virtue of tolerance must give way to the sterner but loftier virtue of justice. Especially when the emptiness of a man’s heart becomes, we find it in this man, an abyss threatening to swallow up society.”

- The prosecutor about the narrator’s soul.

The entirety of page 96 going into 97 >>>

(Quote from pg 97)

“Yes, it was the hour, when, a long time ago, I was perfectly content. What awaited me back then was always a night of easy, dreamless sleep. And yet something had changed, since it was back to my cell that I went to wait for the next day…as if familiar paths traced in summer skies could lead as easily to prison as to the sleep of the innocent.”

“Céleste then threw toward me. It looked to me as if his eyes were glistening and his lips were trembling. He seemed to be asking me what else he could do. I said nothing; I made no gesture of any kind, but it was the first time in my life I ever wanted to kiss a man.”

Céleste is a real one.