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"
Yes
.
And
don
’
t
forget
:
in
Paris
,
almost
twenty
years
ago
…
"
"
Fine
.
Let
’
s
hope
that
it
won
’
t
be
more
serious
now
than
it
was
then
.
But
it
’
s
quite
incredible
.
"
*
*
*
The
word
"
plague
"
had
just
been
spoken
for
the
first
time
.
At
this
point
in
the
story
,
leaving
Bernard
Rieux
at
his
window
,
the
narrator
may
be
allowed
to
justify
the
doctor
’
s
uncertainty
and
surprise
since
,
with
a
few
slight
differences
,
his
reaction
was
the
same
as
that
of
most
of
our
townsfolk
.
Pestilence
is
in
fact
very
common
,
but
we
find
it
hard
to
believe
in
a
pestilence
when
it
descends
upon
us
.
There
have
been
as
many
plagues
in
the
world
as
there
have
been
wars
,
yet
plagues
and
wars
always
find
people
equally
unprepared
.
Dr
Rieux
was
unprepared
,
as
were
the
rest
of
the
townspeople
,
and
this
is
how
one
should
understand
his
reluctance
to
believe
.
One
should
also
understand
that
he
was
divided
between
anxiety
and
confidence
.
When
war
breaks
out
people
say
:
"
It
won
’
t
last
,
it
’
s
too
stupid
.
"
And
war
is
certainly
too
stupid
,
but
that
doesn
’
t
prevent
it
from
lasting
.
Stupidity
always
carries
doggedly
on
,
as
people
would
notice
if
they
were
not
always
thinking
about
themselves
.
In
this
respect
,
the
citizens
of
Oran
were
like
the
rest
of
the
world
,
they
thought
about
themselves
;
in
other
words
,
they
were
humanists
:
they
did
not
believe
in
pestilence
.
A
pestilence
does
not
have
human
dimensions
,
so
people
tell
themselves
that
it
is
unreal
,
that
it
is
a
bad
dream
which
will
end
.
But
it
does
not
always
end
and
,
from
one
bad
dream
to
the
next
,
it
is
people
who
end
,
humanists
first
of
all
because
they
have
not
prepared
themselves
.
The
people
of
our
town
were
no
more
guilty
than
anyone
else
,
they
merely
forgot
to
be
modest
and
thought
that
everything
was
still
possible
for
them
,
which
implied
that
pestilence
was
impossible
.
They
continued
with
business
,
with
making
arrangements
for
travel
and
holding
opinions
.
Why
should
they
have
thought
about
the
plague
,
which
negates
the
future
,
negates
journeys
and
debate
?
They
considered
themselves
free
and
no
one
will
ever
be
free
as
long
as
there
is
plague
,
pestilence
and
famine
.
Even
after
Dr
Rieux
had
acknowledged
to
his
friend
that
a
handful
of
sick
people
in
different
places
had
unexpectedly
died
of
plague
,
the
danger
seemed
unreal
to
him
.
It
is
just
that
when
one
is
a
doctor
one
has
acquired
some
idea
of
pain
and
gained
a
little
more
imagination
.
As
he
looked
through
the
window
over
his
town
,
which
was
unchanged
,
the
doctor
could
barely
feel
the
first
stirrings
of
that
slight
nausea
with
regard
to
the
future
that
is
known
as
anxiety
.
He
tried
to
put
together
in
his
mind
what
he
knew
about
the
disease
.
Figures
drifted
through
his
head
and
he
thought
that
the
thirty
or
so
great
plagues
recorded
in
history
had
caused
nearly
a
hundred
million
deaths
.
But
what
are
a
hundred
million
deaths
?
When
one
has
fought
a
war
,
one
hardly
knows
any
more
what
a
dead
person
is
.
And
if
a
dead
man
has
no
significance
unless
one
has
seen
him
dead
,
a
hundred
million
bodies
spread
through
history
are
just
a
mist
drifting
through
the
imagination
.
The
doctor
recalled
the
plague
of
Constantinople
which
,
according
to
Procopius
,
claimed
ten
thousand
victims
in
one
day
.
Ten
thousand
dead
equals
five
times
the
audience
in
a
large
cinema
.
That
’
s
what
you
should
do
.
You
should
get
all
the
people
coming
out
of
five
cinemas
,
take
them
to
a
square
in
the
town
and
make
them
die
in
a
heap
;
then
you
would
grasp
it
better
.
At
least
,
one
might
put
some
known
faces
on
this
anonymous
pile
.
But
of
course
it
would
be
impossible
;
apart
from
which
,
who
knows
ten
thousand
faces
?
In
any
event
,
people
like
Procopius
were
not
able
to
count
,
as
is
well
known
.
In
Canton
,
seventy
years
ago
,
forty
thousand
rats
died
of
plague
before
the
pestilence
affected
the
human
inhabitants
.
But
in
1871
they
didn
’
t
have
any
means
of
counting
rats
.
The
calculation
was
a
matter
of
approximation
,
of
more
or
less
,
with
an
obvious
margin
for
error
.
However
,
if
one
rat
is
thirty
centimetres
long
,
forty
thousand
rats
,
placed
end
-
to
-
end
,
would
make
…
But
the
doctor
was
irritated
with
himself
.
He
was
letting
himself
go
and
he
ought
not
to
.
A
few
cases
are
not
an
epidemic
and
it
was
a
question
of
taking
precautions
.
One
had
to
stick
with
what
one
knew
:
stupor
and
prostration
,
red
eyes
,
furred
mouth
,
headaches
,
the
bubos
,
the
dreadful
thirst
,
delirium
,
patches
on
the
body
,
the
inner
anguish
and
,
at
the
end
of
it
all
…
At
the
end
of
it
all
,
some
words
came
back
to
Dr
Rieux
,
a
sentence
that
happened
to
round
off
the
list
of
symptoms
in
his
medical
textbook
:
"
The
pulse
becomes
thready
and
death
occurs
as
the
result
of
some
slight
movement
.
"
Yes
,
at
the
end
of
all
that
,
one
was
hanging
by
a
thread
and
three
out
of
four
people
,
that
was
the
precise
number
,
were
so
impatient
that
they
made
the
slight
movement
that
would
carry
them
off
.
The
doctor
was
still
looking
out
of
the
window
.
