I should have consumed this a long time ago. Perhaps, now I am prepared.

This might be the best read of any philosophical tome I’ve picked up. He manages to fit as much into 100-odd pages as people like Heidegger say in 800. This is a sort of worst-case-scenario philosophy… he starts with the Absurd(the lack of external, eternal meaning to existence, coupled with the insatiable human desire for exactly that) and tries(and mostly succeeds) at building up reasons to live and create and so on from there. I don’t necessarily agree with his premises, but I do identify, and am comforted by his ability to make something green appear, even in the desert of human thought.