John's Blog

My friends are very very wierd. But in a good way...

Molly: what can i use as an alternative to a hammer?
Me: Ummm. how'd you know I was quoting Sartre earlier today?
Me: GET OUTTA MY HEAD
Molly: ?
Me: Sartre wrote "Suppose you enter a room with a picture and a nail, because you want to hang it on the wall, but you have forgotten to bring a hammer. Now all of a sudden all the things around you show themselves in their capacity to serve as a hammer. The glass shows its breakability, the books show their vulnerable weak covers, etc. Finally, you take off your shoe and use the heel of it. When the job is done and you look around, all things have lost their hammer- or no hammer-look. Books now refer to their contents or to the author whom you once met at a literary evening or to the holiday place where you read them for the first time and the glass shows you the thirst that doing the hammering job has given you."
Molly: hahahaha.
Molly: well, i just had that conundrum.
Molly: unfortunately, my vibrator isn't doing the trick
Me: LMAO.
Me: so use your shoe.
Molly: you're laughing because you know i'm serious.
Molly: ok. gonna go try that
Me: as a hammer. not a vibrator.
Molly: right. got it.
Molly: problem solved
Molly: i wonder how many people reference sartre when doing home improvement?

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