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April 20, 2012
Camus on Oran, Algeria: "Our citizens work hard."
Our citizens work hard. Their chief interest is in commerce, and their chief aim in life is, as they call it, "doing business".
--Narrator describing Oran in opening pages of The Plague (1947), by Albert Camus
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at April 20, 2012 11:00 PM