Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/The tyranny of Big Abortion/reply (31)

(Yes, I knew it wasn't officially post modernism -- my jokes never go over well. it's good i do not think i should be a comedian).

Do you think I *understand* Godot? Do you think anyone understands Godot? absurdism is named well. But at least it's not meant to be understood (I think). Wittgenstein and Russell I also understand well, cause again, it was / is a very focused philosophy. Of your list though, Popper, Duhem, Dewey all lose me.

As for Camus, i must really not understand literature. I read L'etranger, (several times), and yet it's listed as absurdest by wikipedia. The character is dark, isolated, driven, cold but his actions follow from that isolation. I was with the author the entire time. I read Godot or Rhinoceros and the whole time, I'm saying "is this supposed to have meaning?" "am I supposed to extract something from it, or just go with it". Absurdest to me is a literature that does not follow from character formation. So why is L'etranger absurdest?

I do so much better on things that are more obvious, I guess. or I don't have the right guides to help "get" modern thinking or I don't know(?)