Death

January 1, 2018

‘Men die, and they are not happy.’
Caligula in Caligula, by Albert Camus

Camus began writing Caligula in 1938, and it was performed for the first time in 1945. At a time when life was again threatened by war and oppression, the play was generally well received. But now in 2017, Caligula’s words might be outdated; people have begun to think that death is not becoming more familiar, after all. Particularly since Ray Kurzweil, Google’s di


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