Hondo's take on Stranger

Above is a nice cartoon about Camus and at right Monsieur Camus himself with cig.

I could see how this book, in its time, could be viewed as quite revolutionary. I kept thinking to myself, who are these millions of Americans that are so taken by the book! I think the 'stranger' was most of all our lead character, who never let anyone get to know him...maybe he didn't know himself. On another note, it's about getting to know people. All of us live in a world of suppositions, asumptions, presumptions (if we're that conceited), pre-conceived notions about people and places. Taken to an almost absurd end by Camus, our lives, he seems to say, could spiral into something similar if we don't open up, if we don't talk, if we don't let people we know and love into our world. Of course, he seems to be constructing a whole society that short circuits that whole kind of interpersonal communication. For our own protection, we all "wear masks" to a certain degree, but we mustn't let that be the rule when it comes to our closer, inner circles. So yeah, it's good for you all to know that I really dig "Bring It On!"

Bringin' it all the time, oh yeah,

Hondo