Sunday, December 04, 2005

I always wondered what really inspired Jean-Paul Sartre's masterpiece Nausea. Now I know:
"When Sartre attempted to seduce Beauvoir's favorite, a waifish 21-year-old called Olga, he failed resoundingly. He redirected his attentions onto the girl's sister, Wanda, who rewarded him for his first kiss by running to the bathroom to vomit."