Tuesday 20 July 2010

Future Historians

From The Fall (1956) by Albert Camus:
I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. For us too, perhaps, a single sentence will suffice. They stayed online late into the night, doing nothingmuch.

8 comments:

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Sroyon said...

Thanks, but I kind of prefer to have four or five faithful readers, over "millions of users" from all over the world.

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nothing much are two words

Tommy said...

I'm impressed that reading papers was so big an activity back in the day.

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Sroyon said...

@Kroswami: Not for our generation.

@Tommy: Maybe his ideas about modern man were derived from observing his own super-intellectual, ultra-politically-conscious circle of acquaintances.

@Ravis: My friends? I suppose you could call them that.

Indecision Personified said...

Or, they may simply say, "They were Wombats"

Sroyon said...

Oh, but I don't consider staying online to be a waste of anything at all!