Hell ain't a bad place.

[davywavy]

In Jean-Paul Sartre's play No Exit three people locked in a hotel room slowly but surely come to the realisation that they are dead and in Hell, and that their hell is each other. The skill in the allocation of this Hell is not putting three people who will loath and rage at each other in a room together; instead it's just guaging it so the people will spend all eternity just ticking each other off.
There's a great deal of catharsis in outright anger and fury or rage, but they will be denied that. Instead the three characters will just spend all eternity bloody irritated and bickering.

I was trying to think last night who my two people would be were I in a similar situation. Being a fellow of mighty passions, I don't get irritated much so finding a couple of people who just irritate me without reducing me to a killing fury in short order might be difficult. But what about you? Who would you have to be stuck in a room with to put your back up for all eternity?

Comments

Ineffable, innit?

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

I guess I find it hard to comprehend that I might be in a situation where I might be supernaturally precluded from doing the sensible thing (in this case, defusing differences and plotting escape). But then I guess that's how the Church has traded all these years ;-)

Re: Ineffable, innit?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Well, by your own admission you haven't been supernaturally precluded from doing the sensible thing up until now, but that hasn't stopped you :p

Re: Ineffable, innit?

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

You're right, of course. I only ever do the awesome thing ;-)

Re: Ineffable, innit?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

That's one word for it, but a few moments with a thesaurus would have provided you with a bevy of superior alternatives.