Revision time Besides all the pain of hours of trying to fill my brain with the kind of knowledge they might expect me to caugh up in the exams, I do have moments of enjoyment. Actually, pure beauty, such as in this passage from Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Naus�e", which I came across when slowly trying to make some sense of his "Being and Nothingness":

"It was breathtaking. Never before these days I would have guessed what it means to exist. I was like the others who are going for a walk on the sea shore in their summer dresses. I said like they did: the sea IS green; that white dot over there IS a seagull, but I did not feel that it existed, that the seagull was an existing seagull. Usually existence hides itself.
And all of a sudden: with one flash it was there, and it was clear like the sun: the existence had unveiled itself. It had lost its inoffensive attire of an abstract category, it was the substance of the things themselves, this root was made from existence."

The translation is a bit ad hoc, but it is still such a clear and beautiful exposition of Sartre's existentialism, and it makes me so happy to read it. Long live my decision to choose to study for a degree that I really love.  ¶ 8:32 AM