In the past week, I have read books, essays, and short stories written by Jean-Paul Sartre, Emile Zola, Anatole France, Albert Camus, Rousseau, Voltaire, and Alexis de Tocqueville. I seem to have developed something of a fixation on France.

The fact that I prefer Camus to the rest of the lot probably says something important about me, but I'm not sure what that is.