Norman Ohler

And that was quite interesting to me.

But the most influential book maybe is The Stranger by Camus.

Yeah.

Because I like the language so much and I'm really mostly interested in language.

I don't really care what it's about.

I was lying on the beach in Morocco when I was 20 and reading The Stranger and then a Moroccan came and he said, why are you reading a racist book?

They were like, what are you talking about?

This is world literature.

He said, yeah, right.

He's like killing an Arab without consequence.

No, actually there is consequence, but no reason basically, just because he's bored.

So this is racist.

That was like, made no sense to me, that argument, because I was just interested in how Camus constructed.

It was just for me a stylistical experience to read that.

There's nothing unnecessary in The Stranger.

And I always try to write a book where every sentence is just, there's nothing unnecessary in the book.

But it's very hard to do, actually.

Nietzsche could do this.

Peterson talked about this, that every sentence in Nietzsche is like chiseled and it's like perfect.

And I think not every, I mean, but it's, that's his tendency.