NP: On "marking time" in The Plague

[Mark Kohut]

Yesterday's lucid writer in the LRoB led me to this
reading observation re *The Plague*....

One thing Camus does in the early section is to
characterize the bourgeoisie of Oran as dull
working stiffs interested only in making money.
This echoes some unforgettable words in his* Myth of Sisyphus *
essay about commuting to work mindlessly and coming home
mindlessly, day after day, of course this is sisyphean and in
*The Plague *it seems this condition is like "marking time' even
before the plague.