Reading JP’s first sentence triggered a memory and visual association concerning something I had read some time ago about Jean Paul Sartre and a drug adventure gone bad which was documented by his partner Simone De Beauvoir.
De Beauvoir in her autobiography, The Prime Life, mentions a lobster incident. After experimenting with mescaline Sartre suffered a unusually nightmarish side affect that tormented him for some time. While going about his daily life he would imagine a lobster or other crustaceans following or shadowing him. As this continued he became more anxious over his mental health and feared the worst. He met with Jacques Lacan concerning the matter.
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