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If you (re)read The Plague earlier in the pandemic, then you were ready for what we’re going through now.
“Rieux and his friends now discovered how tired they were,” Albert Camus said of his protagonist after the quarantine had dragged on longer than anyone had ever imagined. “Dr. Rieux noticed it when he observed the steady growth of a strange indifference in himself and in his friends,” he continued. “Men who up to now had shown such a lively interest in any news about the plague, no longer bothered with it.”
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