The Stranger Than Fiction

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
-Albert Camus


The American president has decided to ingest a little Camusian wisdom in the form of his seminal fiction, "The Stranger." Evidently he didn't read it soon enough. Meursault did not receive a pardon.