Playtest

I’d decided to buy my mother a book for mother’s day, so on Saturday I visited a book shop run by a friend of a friend. Looking through the books I came across Camus’ ‘The Outsider’, and picked it up for myself. I was less than surprised when a book described as ‘a classic existentialist novel’ opened with the death of the protagonist’s mother, and no more surprised with the ending closing on the impending death of the protagonist himself. Even Google Books lists its subject as death. Its an interesting, if short, book, the indifference and aimless tone of the first person narration is very effective.

I’m trying to catch up with my thesis writing at the moment, I’m not doing too badly, but then again I just cut and pasted a chunk of text from one of my conference papers into the introduction, so it feels a little bit like cheating, though I will have to rewrite it slight;y to fit the flow of the chapter anyway.