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A Fortunate Shore

At the time of his death, Camus had been at work on a novel which mortality forbad him to complete.  What he managed to put on the page was published, as he left it, thirty-five years after his end.  The novel is entitled The First Man.  It tells the story of a young boy named […]

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Nuance

Recently, I revisited a particular scene in Mel Stuart’s 1971 musical fantasy, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory.  Of a heavy evening, the poor paper boy Charlie Bucket arrives at the laundry where his mother, Mrs. Bucket is working late.  He offers to walk her home, but the impromptu visit is really intended to lessen […]