if i had a nickle every time a lonely grumpy doctor invited his friend, who seems much nicer and more social at first glance, but really is just as eccentric, to live with him, and some time later the doctor watched his friend succumb to the very same illness that he was helping other people fight, i'd have 2 nickles which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

The concept of Rieux not wanting Tarrou to become a saint because saints are ought to go through hell during their lives and then die suffering