In David Graeber’s essay “What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?,” he claims that these animals “have a very bad reputation among philosophers,” with the exception of the French. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this animal, which a David Foster Wallace essay questions the ethics of eating after his trip to a festival.
ANSWER: lobsters [accept “Consider the Lobster”]
[10e] A bad trip on mescaline once caused this French writer to hallucinate lobster-like creatures, which may have influenced Antoine Roquentin’s numerous references to crabs in this author’s novel Nausea. He also wrote No Exit.
ANSWER: Jean-Paul Sartre [or Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre]
[10h] This other French writer was famous for walking his pet lobster Thibault on a leash. A “disconsolate Prince of Aquitaine in a ruined tower” is the speaker of this author’s poem “El Desdichado.”
ANSWER: Gérard de Nerval
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