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a repeating theme in music, literature, and art; a predominant theme
1954Bridge Over The River Kwai'Never assume an operation is complete unless the enemy has been caused as much alarm and despondency as possible' was the—leitmotif—of the Plastic and Destructions Company, Ltd.1959The Myth of Sisyphus: An Absurd ReasoningI do not want to suggest anything here, but how can one fail to read in his works the signs of an almost intentional mutilation of the soul to balance the mutilation accepted in regard to the absurd? It is the leitmotiv of the Journal.1965Texas by the TailBut still there had to be more to it than that; some hideous note that only he could hear in the Leitmotif to which he marched through life.Labels: Albert Camus, Jim Thompson, Pierre Boulle
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