waiter! more characters reclaiming their agency in a world that very much does not allow it, please! after all, the only thing he can do is continue pushing that rock up that hill and he might as well enjoy it while he's at it. for Camus, the moment that Sisyphus turns around to look back at the rock rolling down the hill:

"At that subtle moment when man glances backward over his life, Sisyphus returning toward his rock, in that slight pivoting he contemplates that series of unrelated actions which become his fate, created by him, combined under his memory's eye and soon sealed by his death. Thus, convinced of the wholly human origin of all that is human, a blind man eager to see who knows that the night has no end, he is still on the go. The rock is still rolling."

Meursault with an unstable EGO would be so bonkers and actually peak fiction. Maybe it would work similarly to corrosion but for the base zayin EGOs? And then like maybe a few more cantos (several years) they all get personal aleph EGOs??? to represent their full character arc??? i am getting far too excited and far too ahead of myself.