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HARD_AS_STEEL

                                             April 17, 2012

  Sartre's "Nausea", closes with                      NAUSEA
  Roquentin is once again-- and he
  expects, for the last time--
  listening to the old hand-cranked
  78rpm of "Some of These Days".

  It performs the same magic on him,
  bringing him back to humanity again,       It shows him that it's
  and he resolves to begin again, and        possible to "justify your
  begin writing again:                       existance", to "redeem the
                                             sin of existing" or somesuch.
     "Another type of book.  I don't
     know quite which kind--but you
     would have to guess, behind the
     printed words, behind the pages,
     at something which would not
     exist, which would be above                 SURROUNDED_BY_STORIES
     existence.  A story, for example,
     something that would never happen,
     an adventure.  It would have to be
     beautiful and hard as steel and            This casts his
     make people ashamed of their               earlier disdain
     existence."                                for stories of
                                                adventure in a
                                                different light...


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