#122: Why Live?

Update: 2025-02-09

Description

An analysis of the question, 'Why Live?' with a couple poems, Camus, Nietzsche, Puss in Boots, Suzume, and Nosferatu.

Sources

Camus'The Myth of Sisyphus

Nietzsche'sBeyond Good and Evil

Nietzsche'sThus Spoke Zarathustra

Herman Hesse'sSiddhartha

Puss in Boots

Nosferatu (2024)

Suzume

Peter Zapffe'sThe Last Messiah

Background Music

"Esperanza" by Hermanos Gutiérrez

"You Were Bigger Than Life" by Shook

--both slowed and with pitches modified.

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