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Sick of It All

‘I existed like a stone, a plant, a microbe'

Ginger can negate the nausea of existence, a phenomenon chronicled by French philosopher-novelist J.P. Sartre

It’s anti-inflammatory, antifungal, antimicrobial, antidiabetic, antispasmodic, antihypertensive, anti-hyperlipidemic, anti-tumor, and analgesic. It also fractures flatulence.

By Amanda Fortini

“Things are bad! Things are very bad: I have it, the filth, the Nausea,” Antoine Roquentin, the dyspeptic protagonist of Jean-Paul Sartre’s novel, Nausea, writes in his diary. “And this time it is new: it caught me in a café,” he continues, “I dropped to a seat, I no longer knew where I was; I saw the colours spin slowly around me, I wanted to vomit. And since that time, the Nausea has not left me, it holds me.” Has anyone ever needed ginger, the nausea remedy I’m going to tell you about, more than Antoine Roquentin? I mean, aside from pretty much every person in America these past four years. Let me explain. Roquentin, the French philosopher’s alter ego, is a young writer at work on a biography of a minor eighteenth-century French diplomat, the Marquis de Rollebon. He’s also the proverbial man at loose ends: ambling around, loafing in cafés, hate-watching strangers while contending with bouts of existential malaise he’s named “the Nausea.” Meanwhile, in his diary, which is also the …

Letter

A Hurricane in Georgia

Helene Made Some Memories Here, Too

Rip-Roarin’ Gal Leaves Path of evastation Through Georgia Before ipping North

Buy batteries, ice, propane camp-stove canisters, charcoal, and lighter fluid

By Virgil Huston

I can sleep through anything, so the first I knew of the storm was my wife waking me up around 3 or 4 AM on Friday morning, the 27th of September. Our old feist dog was whining and panting hard, in panic mode under the bed. The wind was howling and it was pouring sheets of rain. The power was off, so I retrieved my flashlight to comfort the dog. We had no idea what was really happening outside. No one was worried. No one was prepared. My preparation consisted of dropping the umbrella on the patio table, to account for wind. The only significant damage I could remember from a hurricane, outside of isolated tornadoes, was when Hugo came through in 1989 and caused significant treefall in some areas. I live in the first planned suburban neighborhood in Aiken, South Carolina, and it is a large development. It is the kind of neighborhood where investors and hedge funds love to buy up homes to create rentals. There is a mix of elderly people who have lived here for many years, young …