 Thinkers in the tradition of Phenomenology retained Schopenhauer’s conviction that the emotion harbors a metaphysical insight. Instead of tossing the question into the emotivist waste basket, like the logical positivists, or lapsing into quietism, like Wittgenstein, existentialists provide detailed treatments of the awe expressed by the ultimate question. They built on Schopenhauer’s literary approach to philosophy, depicting the emotion in plays and novels such as Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea. Like the arch-pessimist Schopenhauer, Sartre’s protagonist experiences our crowded world as de trop, over-stuffed with accidental beings. Sartre himself, after an unpleasant experiment with mescaline, was chronically creeped out by the country-side vegetation edging its way into Paris.