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...of more than twenty pages in the August 1952 issue. The two leading figures of French leftist thought had clearly parted ways...

The Rebel was published in Oct. 1951 and Sartre wasted little time in publishing a scathing review of it in his magazine...Written by Sartre's protege Francis Jeanson, this review accused Camus of having withdrawn from real revolutionary ideals by criticizing certain aspects of communism...Camus replied in a seventeen-page letter that was printed in [a] magazine...Sartre [then replied] with an angry personal attack..

that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness. (pg.59)

That's when everything began to reel The sea carried up a thick, fiery breath. it seemed to me as if the sky split open from one end to the other to rain down fire. My whole being tensed and I squeezed my hand around the revolver. The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and sun. I knew ..

The Sky remains clouded up till the day of the Transit, Friday the fifth of June. Both the Zeemanns and the Vrooms speed about in unaccustom'd Bustle, compar'd to the Astronomers, who seem unnaturally calm.

"Dutch Ado about nothing," Mason remarks.

(pg. 97)

...living Creature, then it knows, by something even more wondrous than Human Sight, where its Sun shines, however far it lie.

-Revd Wicks Cherrycoke,
Unpublished Sermons

(pg.94)

As Planets do the Sun, we orbit 'round God according to Laws as elegant as Kepler's. God is as sensible to us, as a Sun to a Planet. Tho' we do no see Him, yet we know where in our Orbits we run, - when we are closer, when more distant,- when in His light and when in shadow of our own making... We feel as components of Gravity His Love, His Need, whatever it be that keeps us circling. Surely if a Planet be a ....

Just ordered me Calvino's "Difficult Loves" and "Six Memos for the Next Millennium", plus Colette's "My Mother's House and Sido".......now the waiting game.

"So you got married, does that mean you forgot how to fuck yourself?" "Nice day'? do you know Bollocks? - go get hit by Lightning" - Jack "Fingers" Soames

"a viperish Lad whose eponymous Gesture, made in answer to all Overtures, however ritual or ev'ryday, strangely lacks any hostile Intent, being expressive rather of a deep-held wish, so far as may be possible......to be left alone."

Once, the only reason Men kept Dogs was for food. Noting that among Men no crime was quite so abhorr'd as eating the flesh of another human, Dog quickly learn'd to act as human as possible, - and to pass this Ability on from Parents to Pups. So we know how to evoke from you, Man, one day at a time, at least enough Mercy for one day more of Life. (pg.23)

TINK prosperity (Two Incomes, No [dependent] Kids)

Outland's story.........correction.

Outlander's story.

If Outland were here to-night, he might say with Mark Antony, My fortunes have corrupted honest men.

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own (78).

You are well habituated to be passed by as a shadow in Life's sunshine: it is a new thing to see one testily lifting his hand to screen his eyes, because you tease him with an obtrusive ray.' (pg. 420)

and give a truant hour to Imagination - her soft, bright foe, our sweet Help, our divine Hope. We shall and must break bounds at intervals, despite the terrible revenge that awaits our return. Reason is vindictive as a devil: for me, she was always envenomed as a step-mother. If I have obeyed her it has chiefly been with the obedience of fear, not of love. (pg. 308)