10.5281/ZENODO.4064398
Thelakat, Paul
Paul
Thelakat
Light of Truth, Ernakulam, Kerala
The Preacher and the Plague
Zenodo
2020
Albert Camus
The Plague
Ebola
Broken creation
The Preacher
2020-04-02
en
Journal article
https://zenodo.org/record/4064398
10.5281/zenodo.4064397
1.0
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Open Access
<p>We are living a fatal plague, we do not know who will come out of<br>
it. Albert Camus published <em>The Plague </em>in June 1947, three years<br>
after the liberation of Paris from the Nazi occupation. The Plague<br>
is the tale of a natural calamity that descends on the Algerian<br>
town of Oran. Evil is the plague in the soul of man which continues<br>
pecking the liver of any man as in the case of Prometheus. I have<br>
locked up myself in the library of the University of Leuven to<br>
understand and defend God from the complicity of evil which was<br>
a problem of highest concern for me. In the aforesaid novel, Tarou<br>
while narrating the story of his life to Dr Rieux, tells: “I know<br>
positively … that each of us has the plague within him; no one, no<br>
one on earth, is free from it. And I know, too, that we must keep<br>
endless watch on ourselves lest in a careless movement we breathe<br>
in somebody’s face and fasten the infection on him. What’s natural<br>
is the microbe. All the rest – health, integrity, purity (if you like) –<br>
is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter.<br>
The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who<br>
has the fewest lapses of attention. And it needs tremendous willpower.<br>
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