Part+2+Chapter+5

Pg 105 “The papers often talked about a debt being owed to society…” “The fact that the sentence had been read out at eight o’clock rather than at five o’clock, and the fact that it might have been completely different…” “Willing as I was, I just couldn’t accept such a absolute certainty…” “…when I really thought about it, there was nothing to permit me such a luxury…” “…my heart would have done the rest…” Pg 106 – 107 He discusses his father… “But naturally, you can’t always be rational.” “…what was wrong with the guillotine was that you had no chance at all, absolutely none…” “…nothing was more important than executions…” – Absurdist thought “I was made to realise that on the contrary everything was quite simple: the machine is on the same level as the man who’s walking towards it.” Pg 108 – 109 Refers to sleeping again “But everyone knows that life isn’t worth living…” “I’d gained another 24 hours…” “I was lucky throughout that period in that I never once heard footsteps…” “Given that you have to die it doesn’t matter how or when…” Pg 110 – 111 “…Marie’s memory would have meant nothing to me. I wasn’t interested in her any more if she was dead.” “I didn’t believe in God” “I was absolutely sure what didn’t interest me…”

Pg 112 – 113 Meursault makes his comments on God “…human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything…” “every man in your position has turned to God…” “we’re all condemned to death…” 114 – 115   Chaplain: You must surely at some time have wished for another life. I replied that naturally I had, but that it meant nothing more than wishing I was rich or could swim fast… “I was pouring everything out from the bottom of my heart…” “I lived in a certain way and could have lived in a different way…” “…from the whole of this absurd life I’d been leading…” 116 – 117   What did it matter if he was accused of murder and then executed for not crying at his mother’s funeral? M discusses Salamano and his other “friends”/acquaintances