Self Evidence - وضوح

But there was darkness also in men's hearts, and the true facts were as little calculated to reassure our townsfolk as the wild stories going round about the burials. The narrator cannot help talking about these burials, and a word of excuse is here in place. For he is well aware of the reproach that might be made him in this respect; his justification is that funerals were taking place throughout this period and, in a way, he was compelled, as indeed everybody was compelled, to give heed to them. In any case it should not be assumed that he has a morbid taste for such ceremonies; quite the contrary, he much prefers the society of the living and—to give a concrete illustration—sea-bathing. But the bathing-beaches were out of bounds and the company of the living ran a risk, increasing as the days went by, of being perforce converted into the company of the dead. That was, indeed, self-evident. True, one could always refuse to face this disagreeable fact, shut one's eyes to it, or thrust it out of mind, but there is a terrible cogency in the self-evident; ultimately it breaks down all defenses. How,  for instance, continue to ignore the funerals on the day when somebody you loved needed one? 

The Plague - Albert Camus - Translated by Stuart Gilbert 

با «وضوح» روبرو بودیم. البته هرکسی می توانست خود را مجبور کند که آن را نبیند، چشمانش را بنندد و از آن رو بگرداند، اما «وضوح» نیروی عظیمی دارد که بالاخره همه چیز را با خود می برد. 

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