"A pestilence does not have human dimensions, so people tell themselves that it is unreal, that it is a bad dream which will end..... They continue with business, with making arrangements for travel and holding opinions. Why should they have thought about the plague, which negates the future, negates journeys and debate? They considered themselves free and no one will ever be free as long as there is plague, pestilence and famine."
Albert Camus, The Plague, 1947
5 comments:
Good quote for these terrible days!
@ Judy: It kind of jumped out at me. I'm presently reading it.... Review in about 5-6 weeks! [grin]
people live in their own little worlds, as someone once said... only geologists know the whole enchilada, hahaha.... groan...
@ Mudpuddle: Understandable, but most people can't even conceive of the 'Big Picture' plus that picture can be a pretty scary thing! But if you can't see beyond the end of your nose you're going to spend the rest of your life walking into things, tripping over objects and falling down holes.
i'be done a lot of that even tho i'm a geologist... but a admit to not being a very good one haha...
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