Monday 24 September 2012

And words fail me...

Your soul lives on through the chat messages you forced me to save.

9:17 PM me: wassup
9:18 PM came across a quote by one of your fav authors:
  "You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you're looking for the meaning of life." - Albert Camus
9:19 PM hope you are good

ranit mukherji 

4/25/12
to me
hi...u must hv sent this when i was sleeping...camus, though a great writer, was time-bound...existentialism as a literary precept has largely lost its relevance with the petering out of the phase that followed the second world war...at best it remains a curious study in literary and social history...so this quote from The Stranger, which also highlights camus' nihilism and stoicism (both of which i find repulsive as lifestyles) doesn't reflect a time-traveller philosophy...if anything, it makes you a good 'Outsider'...i'm as good as i can be after my fourth chemo and 22nd radiation...tk cr