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The Plague
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- The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194at Oran.†
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- Such being the normal life of Oran, it will be easily understood that our fellow citizens had not the faintest reason to apprehend the incidents that took place in the spring of the year in question and were (as we subsequently realized) premonitory signs of the grave events we are to chronicle.†
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- The present narrator has three kinds of data: first, what he saw himself; secondly, the accounts of other eyewitnesses (thanks to the part he played, he was enabled to learn their personal impressions from all those figuring in this chronicle); and, lastly, documents that subsequently came into his hands.†
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- His notebooks comprise a sort of chronicle of those strange early days we all lived through.†
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- But an unusual type of chronicle, since the writer seems to make a point of understatement, and at first sight we might almost imagine that Tarrou had a habit of observing events and people through the wrong end of a telescope.†
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- All the same, it is undeniable that these notebooks, which form a sort of discursive diary, supply the chronicler of the period with a host of seemingly trivial details which yet have their importance, and whose very oddity should be enough to prevent the reader from passing hasty judgment on this singular man.†
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- But, before leaving the pulpit, he would like to tell them of something he had been reading in an old chronicle of the Black Death at Marseille.†
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- In it Mathieu Marais, the chronicler, laments his lot; he says he has been cast into hell to languish without succor and without hope.†
Part 2
- In spite of the growing shortage of paper, which has compelled some dailies to reduce their pages, a new paper has been launched: the Plague Chronicle, which sets out 'to inform our townspeople, with scrupulous veracity, of the daily progress or recession of the disease; to supply them with the most authoritative opinions available as to its future course; to offer the hospitality of its columns to all, in whatever walk of life, who wish to join in combating the epidemic; to keep up the morale of the populace; to publish the latest orders issued by the authorities; and to centralize the efforts of all who desire to give active and wholehearted help in the present emergency.'†
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- But he will continue being the chronicler of the troubled, rebellious hearts of our townspeople under the impact of the plague.†
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- It will also give this chronicle its character, which is intended to be that of a narrative made with good feelings-that is to say, feelings that are neither demonstrably bad nor overcharged with emotion in the ugly manner of a stage-play.†
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- In this connection the narrator is well aware how regrettable is his inability to record at this point something of a really spectacular order-some heroic feat or memorable deed like those that thrill us in the chronicles of the past.†
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- Finding that the public appetite for this type of literature was still unsated, they had researches made in the municipal libraries for all the mental pabulum of the kind available in old chronicles, memoirs, and the like.†
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- If the chronicles of the Black Death at Marseille were to be trusted, only four of the eighty-one monks in the Mercy Monastery survived the epidemic.†
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- Thus far the chronicler, and it was not his task to tell us more than the bare facts.†
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- But when he read that chronicle, Father Paneloux had found his thoughts fixed on that monk who stayed on by himself, despite the death of his seventy-seven companions, and, above all, despite the example of his three brothers who had fled.†
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- This chronicle is drawing to an end, and this seems to be the moment for Dr. Bernard Rieux to confess that he is the narrator.†
Part 5
- It is fitting that this chronicle should end with some reference to that man, who had an ignorant, that is to say lonely, heart.†
Part 5
- And it was in the midst of shouts rolling against the terrace wall in massive waves that waxed in volume and duration, while cataracts of colored fire fell thicker through the darkness, that Dr. Rieux resolved to compile this chronicle, so that he should not be one of those who hold their peace but should bear witness in favor of those plague-stricken people; so that some memorial of the injustice and outrage done them might endure; and to state quite simply what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(chronicle) a record of events; or the act of creating such a record or telling others of the events
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)