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@ SatsMan
2025-02-24 16:46:24
Clamence is walking along the streets of Amsterdam when he hears someone go into the water—or at least, he thinks he does. But he’s enjoying his walk, he’s busy, and he probably doesn’t want to get his clothes wet. So he keeps walking. Yet, as the days pass, he can’t shake the thought that he had a chance to help someone and chose not to.
Camus’ novel Fall was an allegory, an allusion to the Holocaust. He said, “This whole neighborhood is a great crime scene.” And indeed, it was.
At the end of the novel—spoiler alert—he says, “Throw yourself into the water again, that I might have a second chance to save both of us.”