The Truth of Man

"I, on the contrary, chose justice in order to remain faithful to the world.  I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning.  But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one.  This world has at least the truth of man, and our task is to provide its justifications against fate itself. "    

Albert Camus
"Letters to a German Friend: Fourth Letter" 
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death 
1943

Wisconsin-Iowa

Lust

"The virtue of Hope, in Enoch, was made up of two parts suspicion and one part lust."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

Iowa

The Heart of Truth

"And I huddle in the lee of my paper mountain like Adam in the bushes and pick up a book and my eyes open panic-stricken in a world other than my own, because when I start reading I'm somewhere completely different, I'm in the text, it is amazing, I have to admit I've been dreaming, dreaming in a land of great beauty, I've been in the very heart of truth."

-Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud A Solitude

McGregor, Iowa