Who knew Jean-Paul Sartre suffered from a mescaline-induced crustacean complex?  What follows is a snippet of conversation the French existentialist had with political science professor, John Gerassi.  In it, Sartre recalls an “experiment” with drugs in 1929, the same year, not so incidentally, he met Simone De Beauvoir, aka “Castor.”

Sartre: ... I ended up having a nervous breakdown.

Gerassi: You mean the crabs?

Sartre: Yeah, after I took mescaline, I started seeing crabs around me all the time.  They followed me in the streets, into class.  I got used to them.  I would wake up in the morning and say, ?