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#19

One more


The bartender was telling
me why he loves Camus

so much. We agree
that he is an appropriate

example of the happy
artist, as opposed

to the hackneyed idea
of the tortured.

We posit the African
sun as a reason

for good humor, opposing
Sartre’s Paris gloom.
 

—Todd Young