Home / Questions / Fill in the missing two words in the key sentence in Camus’s The Stranger in which the main character Mersault finds peace in the realization that life has no meaning. “It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the ___ ___ of the universe.”