I own a copy of The First Man by Albert Camus

There is a photograph of Camus on the cover of my paperback

With a number of unidentified players

From the Racing Universitaire d’ Alger football team

He played as a goalkeeper for the RUA and once famously said

“All that I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football,”

Albert was forced to retire from the game at the age of seventeen because of tuberculosis

In the background there are a number of his teammates

Who like many lived their lives and faded into total obscurity

Camus however was much celebrated in his later years

And although tragic his life

Was so much more than the ordinary



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