brice parain, the editor, asked for numerous cuts of material that was either too populist or else too sexual to avoid an action for indecency. sartre deleted the populist material, which was not natural to him, with few complaints, because he wanted to be published by the prestigious n.r.f., which had a strong, if vague, house style. however, he stood fast on the sexual material which he felt was an artistically necessary hallucinatory ingredient.