Rieux contemplates the unwillingness of human beings to accept the reality of a pestilence such as plague. He thinks about the history of the disease and its manifestations: "stupor, extreme prostration, buboes, intense thirst, delirium, dark blotches on the body, internal dilatation." He contrasts the tranquility of the cool spring day with pictures he has seen of other plagues in history that come.....
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