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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.

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

The actor has an absurd fate. If lucid, the limit of death seems to drive a passion of quantity, which is available to the actor. The varied lives portrayed via appearance carrying their own truths and struggle with the absurd. Living those characters consciously, not turning away from oneself or contradiction, but using the opportunity to expand one’s quantity, while seemingly carrying some part of roles played.

Camus writes of Don Juan, how the legend seems of an absurd attitude and responds to typical views of Juan. Not having a belief in “eternal LOVE” (whose conception is formed by common depiction) but the phenomenon of what he feels. Juan loves different, a way that recognizes the entity of his conscience and doesn’t glorify LOVE (lesses everything else) but instead feasts on the focus of love’s spot light.

One living a life lucid of the absurd (Absurd Man) focuses on the actions available to them, navigating with their courage (to live without appeal) and reason (informing of one’s limits) in tow. How is an Absurd Man to conduct oneself? “…integrity has no need for rules”(66) Value is scaled to how mendacious an idea or a life is in the absurd world. Actions serve/don’t serve people, face your consequences

With no future after death and harboring absurd freedom by rejecting a leaping belief, living a life of quantity follows the revolting mind.“Quantity” not as in the time lived, but time lucid and conscious. Living the “best” life implies a scale of values resulting from a unity, aka negation. “Quantity” as in awareness of the absurd/rebellion, the limit of death/the freedom it gives, and desire for life

In belief of the absurd and appeals to divinity, there are different sorts of freedom and slavery. The divine gives a FEELING of liberation or free oneself to another place after death, but comes with responsibilities, enslaving the mind by limiting choice. The absurd enslaves us here, this world, by presenting death as final but liberates us from a responsibility of acting for a next life. To live a hopeless rebel

Suicide negates the “consciousness desire for unity” part of the absurd equation. With no mind, the absurd is resolved by rushing to death, which is our end when no meaning or future-after-death is presented, when only abstract leaps can be made to conclude rational meaning/universal cohesion. In this way, we are “condemned to death”(pg55) therefore to live with this “truth” is to revolt against death.

When a consciousness highlights the absurd and wishes not to leap away from the anguish the tension creates, one must be ever aware of this unreasonable world and one’s own desire for unity or reason. This causes the problems of day to day to strengthen in the mind, as there is no alternate place to go after life, this is it. “Abstract evidence”(I think=assumptions) shifts towards a sight of human creation.