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To: Poet who wrote (207)	7/17/2001 11:58:38 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 466

I found him frightening Gee, maybe I should quit reading and run out and find me a shrink. Here I am admitting that I identify with a narcissist and sociopath. <g> Karen

To: Poet who wrote (207)	7/17/2001 12:01:33 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 466

I also read the Matthew Ward-- seems to be the popular one now. I am looking at copies of some other books by Camus that we happen to own and they are all by different translators. I wish I could read him in the original. But the only language I studied was Latin and The COmmentaries on the Gallic Wars lacks a certain sex appeal. Maybe I am a sociopath? I actually felt some identification with Meersault in the very beginning, but now that I think about it, I wonder if it was the very starkness of the writing that allowed me to interpret his actions with some empathy. I may have been adding my own meanings where he had none. It wasn't until he started doing things that I could no longer find any common ground with- empathetic or sympathetic--that I wondered what he was. Still, the reasons he was getting his head chopped off were all wrong. I didn't cry at my parents' funerals. I REALLY hesitate to bring up the evil dogtosser, but that was sort of X's point about the punishment in that case, wasn;t it? We hate what that man did so much, find it so repulsive, that we wanted to punish him more than the law required. (I think he did get the maximum) Is it because we see in these "Others" pieces of ourselves we don't want to face and so we make "monsters" of them.