I only noticed this particular Track of the Day theme today, and I immediately went back through the previous entries to make sure you hadn't run this one already. The Cure's reference to Camus's The Stranger is made pretty explicit in the refrain , but back in high school-when I both heard the song and read the book for the first time within a month of each other-I thought the song was a pretty good distillation of the novel's central themes.