Author Archives: José Luis Merlan

We continue to ask ourselves the same rhetorical question, and may always ask this question for all the time we have left. No one can seriously have a claim to knowledge as to the purpose and meaning of life. Albert Camus, acknowledged in the Myth of Sisyphus, that men must find their own meaning, evenContinue reading “The Pursuit of Meaning”

I hear a car door close nearby and I look up to see a man step out of his car, who is greeted by another man with a snapping ‘bro’ handshake, who says, “lente oscuro, mariguano seguro.” This disrupts my moment of silence because I don’t laugh but find it cognitively humorous. I see aContinue reading “An Imaginary Journey Through the Day of the Dead”