ility of death, and our radical individual personal responsibility, ôOur nada who art in nada, nada be thy name they kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nadaàHail nothing full no nothing, nothing is with theeö (383). There is some irony in the story that meaning to some small degree is provided to the old waiter in his empathy with the existential condition of the old patron. The waiter, despite his lack of awareness of the ônada,ö appears superficial and only self-interested.
In Jean Paul SartreÆs The Wall, three men are left in a prison cell to contemplate their impending death by firing squad in the morning. Literally as well as figuratively, the story depicts the existential dilemma of the inescapability of death and finite time in life. We also see in the charactersÆ thoughts as they ponder their deaths the anguish and fear stemming from the radical r
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