"The crabs were mine. I had gotten used to them."
Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | View Comments | Tagged: drugs, literature
Jean-Paul Sartre, interviewed by John Gerassi in the spring of 1971:
Yeah, after I took mescaline, I started seeing crabs around me all the time. They followed me in the streets, into class. I got used to them. I would wake up in the morning and say, “Good morning, my little ones, how did you sleep?” I would talk to them all the time. I would say, “Okay, guys, we’re going into class now, so we have to be still and quiet,” and they would be there, around my desk, absolutely still, until the bell rang.