Unless there is a Classics Illustrated version, I have a really hard time picturing W reading The Stranger. But it seems to be all over the news so I guess I'll have to take Tony Snow's word for it. I'm picturing a press conference (yeah, right) where a reporter asks him about it and he replies, "It's about killing Arabs, ain't it?
I actually don't have anything to say on the subject that Maureen Dowd doesn't say much better:
but I couldn't pass up the title and the Cure reference.It takes a while to adjust to the idea of W., who has created chaos trying to impose moral order on the globe, perusing Camus, who wrote about the eternal frustration of moral order in human affairs. What does W., the archenemy of absurdity as a view of life, kindle to in C., the apostle of absurdity as a view of life? What can W., the born-again monogamist, spark to in C., the amorous atheist? In some ways, Mr. Bush is supremely not a Camus man. Camus hated the blindness caused by ideology, and Mr. Bush wallows in it. Camus celebrated lucidity while the president keeps seeing only what he wants to see.