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A Consideration on Absurdity


In the afternoon of January 4, 1960
On his way back to Paris from Roule Mafran by car
Sitting in the death seat
Albert Camus was still continuing the endless contemplation
     about the absurdity

It is not clear if the driver missed the handle or not, but
In full speed, the car crashed into a huge plane tree
At the curve point

A rough deep voice saying "Anyone trying to disclose shall die"
Reached his ears from nowhere, and
Without a slight moment for him to say "Hang it!"
The perfect crime was completed and the murder was done

Genius and short-tempered Yukio Mishima of Japan
Committed hara-kiri perfectly
Trying to show absurdity by himself, but
It was too imprudent - regretful

Both the accidental death and the suicide are of absurdity
There is no eternal life, however
Nobody can do anything.