Monday, August 21, 2006

Bush's Reading Habits Suggest Ulterior Motives?

I was intrigued to read this quote in The Observer on Sunday:

'I don't want to go too deeply into it, but we discussed the origins of existentialism.'

George W Bush's spokesman, Tony Snow, reveals that the President read The Outsider by Albert Camus, on his summer holiday. Next week, George ponders Derrida and the rise of post-structuralism.

Interestingly, in Camus' book the protagonist murders an Arab and waits to be executed for it. The book also inspired a song by The Cure called 'Killing an Arab', which caused a great deal of controversy when released. Surely this doesn't signify anything deeper, or does it?

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