That's dumb. Who gave you that edition and what could be so bad about those sentences?
everynametaken Send a noteboard - 17/01/2010 09:18:39 PM
I just hope they at least mark where they took them out.
It is Camus after all. His works all deal with dark themes of existential angst. What could possibly have been so bad about four sentences?
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Camus.
- 17/01/2010 06:13:40 AM
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I'm starting L'Etranger, but it's going to take me the semester to read it.
- 17/01/2010 07:14:08 AM
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Reading in French? *NM*
- 17/01/2010 08:08:33 AM
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Yeah. Although the edition we're reading took out 4 "objectionable sentences." 
- 17/01/2010 09:04:03 PM
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- 17/01/2010 09:04:03 PM
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That's dumb. Who gave you that edition and what could be so bad about those sentences?
- 17/01/2010 09:18:39 PM
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They "might cause embarrasment in the classroom."
- 18/01/2010 09:46:34 PM
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I'm really curious now which four sentences, though it's been a while since I read the book. *NM*
- 18/01/2010 10:03:50 PM
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Imagine how I feel. I'm hoping they at least make a mention of where they took it out. *NM*
- 19/01/2010 01:13:10 AM
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I read a short story by Camus...
- 18/01/2010 09:23:40 PM
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