Sunday, November 15, 2009

So it was crabs...

... and not lobsters.

My unquestioning faith in the NYT is hereby restored.

3 comments:

  1. I can't help but be slightly amused when thinking about what sort of searches will find the headline of this post and be disappointed that its content won't help solve their problems.

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  2. Nope: "Sartre: We keep calling them crabs because of my play The Condemned of Altona, but they were really lobsters." http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/11/0082690

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  3. Good! I'd been disappointed that they weren't lobsters, not to mention surprised that an expert on Beauvoir would have gotten this wrong.

    Sartre absolutely does not disappoint:

    "My crabs had considered me important, or else why bother me?"

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