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Friday, June 12, 2009

Jean-Paul Sartre’s autograph

by Writelife on June 12, 2009

Harcourt tries to get Jean-Paul Sartre's attention.The existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre was in Hell. He spoke to no one. He didn’t acknowledge anyone’s existence.

This bothered Harcourt. He wanted an autograph.

He danced in front of Sartre.

He waved his hands.

He did cartwheels and somersaults and shouted and screamed.

Sartre was unmoved. He stood in lonely isolation as if utterly unaware of anyone else around him, which was exactly the case.

In Sartre’s Hell, people did not exist.

Hell, for Sartre, was no people.

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Missing identity

June 12, 2009

One day (an absurd concept in Hell which is eternal and where there is no day or night or time zones or theoreticians to speculate on the nature of time) Harcourt wondered who he was. This came up because in wondering how to leave Hell, he wondered what skills he could bring to the [...]

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