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Big Sex: The Story of the Silver Nail and Other Objects of (Mass) Construction

Becky McLaughlin
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Jean-Paul Sartre begins his essay by answering the question posed by its title: “Why Write?” According to Sartre, we write in order to feel essential to the universe. We write in order to bring the “unity of mind” to bear upon the “diversity of things” (1988, 48)—to force the dark permanence, which at every turn inclines to sink back into obscurity, to take the shape of object relations. We write in order to become.

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