Play it again, Sam.

Madeleine, will you put the record on again? Just once.

LAST WORD: NAUSEA 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 04

Play it again, Sam, says Jean-Paul Sartre’s character Antoine Roquentin in the novel Nausea. Well not exactly. What he says is: “Madeleine, will you put the record on again? Just once, before I leave.”

For 250 pages of the novel, Roquentin rants against…