1943年,萨特的《存在与虚无》出版了。这本是一部出版社准备赔钱的哲学著作,但是没有想到出版后首印一千册竟迅速脱销。这种事情连作者本人也不敢相信,于是他委托出版社调查到底是怎么一回事。结果是喜剧性的,原来,二战期间,法国金属物资短缺,制造砝码的金属被德军搜刮去当做子弹原料,导致天平砝码的价格大涨。巧合的是,《存在与虚无》不多不少正好一磅重,于是被家庭主妇们当 In 1943, Sartre’s “Being and Nothingness” was published. This is a philosophical book prepared by a publishing company to lose money, but did not expect that after the publication of the first print a thousand books actually quickly out of stock. This kind of thing even the author himself can not believe, so he commissioned a publishing house investigation in the end is how the same thing. The result was comic, it turned out that during World War II, France’s shortage of metal supplies, the weight of the metal was sacked by the Germans as a bullet raw material, resulting in the weight of the balance rose sharply. Coincidentally, “Existence and nothingness” is not less than a pound, so be housewives when