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Pastimes : The Literary Sauna (or Tomes in Towels)

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To: Poet who wrote (219)	7/17/2001 1:20:06 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) of 466

Actually I just went back to look up Win's post to read the article that talks about M. as Christ or anti-Christ. If Meursault is a Christ, the “Word” that he spreads is opposite to that of the New Testament. Where the Bible promises an afterlife where good deeds go rewarded and bad deeds are punished, “The Stranger“ shows a world without an afterlife, where both good and bad deeds are equally without meaning. (my bold)To Christ, this world and this life are only valuable as precursors to the next one. This life can be wasted and painful in order to assure pleasure in the next. To Meursault, this world is all that exists; therefore every moment must be savored. If Meursault is this “anti-Christ,” then, can you say that his world is really all that bad? Gee, I think yeah- it IS all that bad, and I don't even believe in an afterlife most of the time. Just because there;s no afterlife, or even no God, we can't have meaning? X and croc had some wonderful posts about our search for personal meaning in life on DAR a week or two ago... I fall apart when things get all literary like this. So I hope some of our professors will step forth and lead us to the Truth. :)

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