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Editorial

Too Fast To Live…

by Rick Lewis

Albert Camus was the James Dean of philosophy. Both of them were good looking, talented, cool. James Dean’s best known film is Rebel Without a Cause; Albert Camus wrote a book called The Rebel, which examines the causes of rebellion. Both men died much too young, in high speed car crashes (Dean in 1955, Camus five years later).

Camus was a novelist, essayist, philosopher, and Nobel Prize winner killed at the height of his career.

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