The Existentialist President
Posted August 21st, 2006 by quarsan
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I've just found out that George Bush has recently read The Stranger by Nobel Prize winning goalkeeper Albert Camus. If you don't know the story, it is a man who kills a stranger for no reason. Book Notes.
Of course this book has influenced a great many people, not least The Cure who turned it into a song. A song called Killing an Arab. Watch it below.
This is possibly the most bizarre story ever on Blairwatch.
Very strange indeed! Still
Very strange indeed! Still it's nice to see Bush has progressed from 'My Pet Goat'.
Just so odd that he's openly
Just so odd that he's openly speaking about a book that is about the motiveless killing of an Arab.
I guess a book about the
I guess a book about the motiveless killing of 100,000 Arabs has yet to be written. I wonder if Bush is identifying himself with Meursault, substituting an appointment with the guillotine with utter condemnation in the majority of public opinion for eternity, now that the Iraq debacle is more widely recognised as an inexcusable disaster (not that he's ever likely to be held to account). There might be the same craving for notoriety. Could it be that in some weird way Bush is actually examining his conscience? I agree that the oddest aspect of this is that he's openly speaking about his reading of the book. The more I think about it, the more I agree that this is one of the most bizarre posts on Blairwatch.
I think I remember hearing once that The Cure's 'Killing an Arab' was number one on US army radio during the first Gulf War back when his dad was President.
Don't know about US army
Don't know about US army radio, but Killing an Arab was certainly removed from the Radio 1 playlist during Gulf War I.
Did the reports say whether
Did the reports say whether Bush read "L'Etranger" in French? If not, it was probably "The Outsider" or "The Foreigner" or (possibly) "The Alien". If so, maybe the French are in favour once more at the court of the Sun King.
I wonder if he agreed with Meursault's opinion that "ceux qui pensent qu'ils ont des droits sont des salauds" ("people who think they have rights are jerks")?
More weird posts
More weird posts please!
Love it!
It's worth bearing in mind
It's worth bearing in mind that Juniors interest in reading books is defined by what his spin-doctors and puppetmasters don't regard as potentially embarrassing. They get it wrong too - remember the famous tale concerning Bush claiming his favourite childhood book was "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"? - a book released the year before he went to University....
It's called lying, Bush like
It's called lying, Bush like posh spice has never read a book. Prefer 'fascinantion street' myself.
"...Bush claiming his
"...Bush claiming his favourite childhood book was "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"? - a book released the year before he went to University..."
Probably about the right reading age for him then
It's also worth pointing out
It's also worth pointing out that The Cure have been rereleasing all of their albums in chronological order* with an extra disc of rare material: Killing An Arab has been left off and does not appear on any of the albums where it should do...
DK
*Yes, I am a massive fan...