goddamnit, i'm trying to do work here.
"A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away, and from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they haven't taken their precautions."
and a sentence later:
"They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences."
so:
- eat indian food as a precaution
- don't stress so much
- we're all imprisoned but occupying ourselves with messageboards saves us from the abyss
- camus forgot about the gender issue.