Isn't the the sea the physical reminder of the infinite (unboundedness) to Yvars as was the desert for Janine?Robert Tulip wrote:The Silent Men is a beautiful and painful story about mortality and how men are bound by existential finitude.
"Thrown finitude," I imagine, means that we find ourselves without self-knowledge. But really,What I like about this story is how Camus starts from an existential philosophy, and shows how deep themes of life can be seen in ordinary circumstances. In thrown finitude, people seek freedom, but economic constraints place as firm bonds as the iron bands of an oaken barrel. In Heidegger's terms, anxiety is the basis of ontology, as we consider our future, past and present as care. The barrel, an ancient craft requiring creativity and skill, facing a modern world in which it cannot compete with industrial technology, is a symbol of the men's life, as the staves strain and coordinate beneath the metal.
I. Style is character.
II. Character is fate.
So we can find what we look for.
Tom