The Plague

Dear Albert Camus,

I have been reading your masterpiece. Did you think it so?

It has taken me several tries to get beyond the point of no return with it. I almost got there the last time--half way through. You make us wait a long time.

Tarrou makes the difference for me.

At any rate, I like your statement:
"..there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea that may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency." (In one volume, this statement hits at p. 136. For me it hit on CD #4 I think.)

Common decency! Is this the Summum Bonum that I have been searching for? Be ye nice, one to another.

Perhaps it is enough.

Betsy