Journal # 7

My topic is time. This includes time of day and day of the week/date.
"Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know." (Camus, 3)
"Night had fallen suddenly." (Camus, 8)
"Dawn was creeping up over the skylight." (Camus, 11)
"After that, everything seemed to happen so fast, so deliberately, so naturally that I don't remember any of it anymore." (Camus, 17)
"Today is Saturday." (Camus, 19)
"I remembered that it was Sunday, and that bothered me: I don't like Sundays." (Camus, 21)
"It was a beautiful afternoon." (Camus, 21)
"At five o'clock some streetcars pulled up, clanging away." (Camus, 23)
"I worked hard at the office today." (Camus, 25)
"I really like doing this [washing my hands] at lunchtime. I don't enjoy it so much in the evening, because the roller towel you use is soaked through: one towel has to last all day." (Camus, 25)
"Twice a day, at eleven and six, the old man takes the dog out foe a walk." (Camus, 27)
"The four o'clock sun wasn't to hot, but the water was warm, with slow, gently lapping waves." (Camus, 34)
"She left at one o'clock and I slept awhile. Around three o'clock there was a knock on my door and Raymond came in." (Camus, 37)
"That evening Marie came by to see me and asked me if I wanted to marry her." (Camus, 41)
"I had a herd time waking up on Sunday, and Marie had to call me and shake me." (Camus, 47)
"He told me that he spent Saturdays and Sundays and all his days off there." (Camus, 50)
"'Do you know what time it is? It's only eleven-thirty!' We were all surprised, but Masson said that we'd eaten very early and that it was only natural because lunchtime was whenever you were hungry." (Camus, 52)
"Raymond came back with Masson around one-thirty." (Camus, 54)
"It was two o'clock in the afternoon, and this time his office was filled with sunlight barely softened by a flimsy curtain." (Camus, 66)
"It was only after Marie's first and last visit that it all started." (Camus, 72)
"The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs." (Camus, 72)
"All night I felt bugs crawling over my face. A few days later I was put in a cell by myself, where I slept on wooden boards suspended from the wall." (Camus, 72)
"Afterwards [...] The first months were hard." (Camus, 77)
"Once again the main problem was killing time." (Camus, 78)
"So, with all the sleep [...] no one can imagine what nights in prison are like." (Camus, 80-81)
"But I can honestly say that the time from summer to summer went very quickly." (Camus, 82)
"Gentlemen of the jury, the day after his mother's death this man was out swimming, starting up a dubious liaision, and going to the movies, a comedy, for laughs." (Camus, 94)
"As I was leaving the courthouse on my way back to the van, I recognized for a brief moment the smell and color of the summer evening. [...] as easily to prison as to the sleep of the innocent." (Camus, 97)
"My mind was always on what was coming next, today or tomorrow." (Camus, 100)
"'Tommorrow, gentlemen, this same curt is to sit in judgement of the most monstrous of crimes: the murder of a father.'" (Camus, 101)
"That afternoon the big fans were still churning the thick air in the courtroom and the jurors' brightly colored fans were all moving in unison." (Camus, 103)
"I spend my days watching how the dwindling of color turns day into night." (Camus, 108)
"The fact that the sentence [...] seriousness of the decision." (Camus, 109)
"They always came at dawn, I knew that." (Camus, 113)
"That evening I thought about it and told myself that maybe she had gotten tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man." (Camus, 115)
"It was at that exact moment [...] his usual time." (Camus, 115)
"'But if you don't die today, you'll die tomorrow, or the next day." (Camus, 117)
"For the first time in a long time [...] live it all again too." (Camus, 122)
I have no idea about a thesis statement. I will come back and add one to this post later.