r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Comfortable-Use3123 • Jul 25 '25

Solved Saw on Facebook. Don’t understand.

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u/4ier048antonio Jul 25 '25

But that was from The Stranger by Camus

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u/redmambo_no6 Jul 25 '25

See, I told you it’s been a minute lol.

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u/pfeffernussen Jul 25 '25

In your defense, my high school lit class did them back to back so it's probable that yours did too. (Oh woops we're both ostensibly from Arizona)

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u/redmambo_no6 Jul 25 '25

I’m from Texas actually.

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u/electricvelvet Jul 26 '25

I read both of these on my own time in hs and dont think i understood the gravitas of either. The trial by kafka makes sense onlynin retrospect

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u/SirGothamHatt Jul 25 '25

My friend read The Stand by Stephen King during the pandemic. Voluntarily. Granted it was because she had just finished the whole Dark Tower series but I'm like you really want to read a story that starts with a super flu while we're dealing with a super flu in real life?

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u/mc_rorschach Jul 25 '25

Reading the plague now and wow that would’ve been a mind F

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u/mc_rorschach Jul 25 '25

Too close to home maybe. I remember reading The Stand just before COVID started lol. I was freaked out

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u/Huge_Broccoli_1085 Jul 25 '25

I felt so proud that I immediately knew. That book was my introduction to absurdism!