SARTRE's nothingness warn't nuthin': He preferred to cuddle.

[UTUSN]

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/07192009/gossip/pagesix/no_satisfaction_180148.htm

JEAN-PAUL SARTE OVERWHELMED BY SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR'S SEX DRIVE

FAMED French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre had a lifelong affair with philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, but was turned off by her voracious sex drive, a new bio reveals. "Sartre was bewildered by the sexual demands made of him, which he found impossible to meet," writes Carole Seymour-Jones in "A Dangerous Liaison," out in September. She quotes the "No Exit" author lamenting: "I was reasonably well-equipped . . . and I often made love, but without very great pleasure. Just a little pleasure at the end, but pretty feeble. I should have been quite happy in bed with a naked woman, caressing and kissing her, but without going as far as the sexual act."

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[NewJeffCT]

1. why did they print that today?

Hasn't Sartre been dead for a while now?

[mix]

2. A jab at Sarkozy maybe, he's in NYC?

[HopeHoops]

3. Yes, but in an existential way, his orgasm was delayed for future printing.

The news of his orgasm actually predated the event, but it couldn't be reported until it occurred long after his death.

[UTUSN]

7. Uh, because there's a bio due out in 2 months, containing this new news?!1 n/t

[NewJeffCT]

9. Then, print it the day before the bio hits the stands?

To maximize the impact of the story, no?

[RadiationTherapy]

4. I knew it! I have had a head-crush on her for quite a while.

I could've done it, dammit! I could've kept up!

I better not hear this about Henry Miller and Anais Nin or I will have to build my damned time machine.

[UTUSN]

5. HaHAH!1 "head-crush" - me, too, on all that crowd. Brings back memories

of my head-in-the-nothingness youth.

To think, that with all the pie in the sky intellectual crap, everything eventually comes down to bits of gossip--whether about Alexander or the Roman emperors or whomever.

In the metaphysics of Nothingness, there would be no meaning in making judgments about "size" or Vigor or "feebleness".

I guess it's all posing after all, and things DO matter, yes?!1

[RadiationTherapy]

6. All comes down to gossip; brilliant.

I am a big believer in 'make your own legend'.

[UTUSN]

8. "I don't mind being pretentious as long as it is on purpose." HaHAH, great!1

You said it (your profile)!1 n/t