skopia
The only serious philosophical question, Camus opens, is whether to kill yourself. His answer: the universe will never explain itself, so you live anyway, unreconciled, like Sisyphus happy pushing his rock uphill forever.
Binx Bolling sells stocks in a New Orleans suburb, sits through afternoon movies, and calls his way out of everydayness the search. Percy's first novel beat Catch-22 to the National Book Award.
Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass and Arthur Dent escapes in his bathrobe. It sold 250,000 copies in three months and put 42 into everyday speech.