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		<title>The Building That Stopped Seeing &#124; Modern Camus Story</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[What if the rats were never the plague, but only the first sign that people had stopped paying attention?&#160;Albert Camus began The Plague with something almost absurd.&#160;Not a dramatic death.&#160;Not a political crisis.&#160;Not even the disease itself.&#160;He began with a dead rat.&#160;Most people dismissed it.&#160;Then another appeared.&#160;Then another.&#160;Only later did everyone realize the rats had [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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