NP: On "marking time" in The Plague

[Jochen Stremmel]

I didn't find the passage about commuting to work mindlessly (and coming
home just so) but a similar one where it seems that the author wants to say
something like the days in the week are exchangeable, beginning with, yes,
it's not very novel, Monday Tuesday:

Rising, street-car, four hours in the office or the factory, meal,
street-car, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm—this path is
easily followed most of the time.
Could be Monday could be Tuesday:

But one day the "why" arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged
with amazement.

Am Do., 16. Apr. 2020 um 11:30 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
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> 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.
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