<div><div dir="auto">I reread The Plague two years ago for a summer workshop at United Church of Santa Fe. It is a powerful novel simply as a literary work but is especially powerful as an extraordinarily human response to the threat of widespread death. Highly recommend but particularly now. </div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 10:10 AM Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Is it a good time to read Albert Camus' 'The Plague' ? Frank and David have so much books on their bookshelves that they probably have it already...</div><a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-03-23/reading-camu-the-plague-amid-coronavirus" target="_blank">https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-03-23/reading-camu-the-plague-amid-coronavirus</a><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>-- --- .-. .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ...<br>
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<div> <br>My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous chaos.<br></div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="letter-spacing:-0.02em;margin:0px"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-weight:normal">"Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion."</font></h1><div><span style="font-size:small;letter-spacing:-0.02em;line-height:1.125em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. </font></span></div><table width="85%" style="color:rgb(93,86,81);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:18px;margin:auto;border-collapse:collapse!important"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center"><p style="margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:12px"><font size="2">"It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power." Joanna Macy.</font></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:27px;color:rgb(146,146,146);text-align:center"><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>