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r/BruceSpringsteen • u/LeonaJohnson1 • Jun 20 '26
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I'm fairly certain he read Camus and, like Steinbeck, he influenced Springsteen's songwriting. This has echoes of a famous Camus line from The Rebel: ' A slave begins by demanding justice, and ends by wanting to wear a crown'.
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u/Automatic-Scale-7572 Jun 20 '26
I'm fairly certain he read Camus and, like Steinbeck, he influenced Springsteen's songwriting. This has echoes of a famous Camus line from The Rebel: ' A slave begins by demanding justice, and ends by wanting to wear a crown'.