...White Owl," then I straightened up, empty-handed. I am no longer free, I can no longer do what I will. Objects should not touch because they are not alive....being in contact with them as though they were living beasts. Now I see: I recall better what I felt the other day at the seashore when I held the pebble....

...alert its holder to a sense of wonder at its thinghood, let alone to any sense of oneness with it. Objects should not touch because they are not alive....being in contact with them as though they were living beasts. Now I see: I recall better what I felt the other day at the seashore when I held the pebble....

...becomes an object. Roquentin, the hero of Nauseaand Sartre's spokesman, comments on such entities: You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more.5 A major difference between Sartre's fiction and Faulkner's is that the French writer nearly...

...objects in the plenitude of their own character, and >- that it frightens him: "You use [objects], put them back in place, you live among ^ them: they are useful, nothing more. But [objects] touch me, it is unbearable. I u am afraid of being in contact with them, as though they were...

...pebble, Roquentin finds the experience completely overwhelming. His response to the pebble is this: "Objects should not touch because they are not alive....nothing more. But they touch me; it is unbearable. 1 am afraid of being in contact with them as though they are living beasts."4 DUALISM AND DEONTOLOGY...

...comprehension. Early in the novel he tells us: "Objects should not tonch because they are not alive. Vou use them, put them back in place, you live among them:...being in contact with them as though they were living beasts" (Sartre, 10l. Roquentin is disgusted and fearful at the thought of the passionate miscegenation...

...is, its volition, tbought, comprehension, Early in the novel he tells us: "Objects sbould not tonch because they are not alive, You use them, put them...are usefuL nothing more, But they touch me, it is unhearable, I am a1 raid of being in contact with them as tbough they were living beasts" fSartre,...

...expressed in terms of the conflict between the subject and the objects it encounters. Roquentin reflects: "Objects should not touch because they are not alive....being in contact with them as though they were living beasts" (N, 10). The problem for Sartre extends beyond the issue of encountering objects, because he...

...way. As the narrator states: "Objects ought not to touch, since they are not alive. You use them, you put them back in place, you live among them; they are useful, nothing more. I am afraid of entering in contact with them, just as if they were living animals. Now I see; I remember...

...becomes obstinately present, even seeming to touch Roquentin deliberately. He writes in his journal: "Objects should not touch because they are not alive....nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable" [Les objects, cela ne devrait pas toucher, puisque cela ne vit pas. On s'en sert, on les remet en place,...