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Rick On Theater
Personal blog · rickontheater.blogspot.comculturewriting
Rick On Theater is a personal blog at rickontheater.blogspot.com about culture and writing. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on Sartre's line "Hell is other people" and how its French original has been translated into English. Commenters cite it when discussing the phrase's meaning.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My unmediated impressions and thoughts on, especially, theater and other topics of interest to me.
What Hacker News says?
Neat reference to Sartre. "The line “Hell is other people” in French reads “L'enfer, c'est les autres” or “Hell is [the] others.” (The best known English translation of the play, by Paul Bowles, actually renders the line “Hell is just – other people.”) We get a little more of the flavor of the line in English if we read it as “Hell is the Other" https://rickontheater.blogspot.com/2010/07/most-famous-thing... .
Comment linking /2010/07/most-famous-thing-jean-paul-sartre.html
on “Facebook is other people”Submitted The Most Famous Thing Jean-Paul Sartre Never Said (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe book in question was also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20496643 I hope everybody knows that the title is a Sartre reference. http://rickontheater.blogspot.com/2010/07/most-famous-thing-...
Comment linking /2010/07/most-famous-thing-jean-paul-sartre.html
on “Hell Is Other Internet People”