Oh, Being and Nothingness isn't that bad. It just has stretches where Sartre tries too hard to emulate Heidegger. Now Heidegger: there was a tricky writer, the kind of philosopher who tries to redesign his entire language (leading to some deeply weird-sounding translations about being-in-the-world and ready-to-handness). Like Kant: supposedly one German university advises its undergraduates to read the Critique of Pure Reason in its English translation, because the original German is so difficult.
Sartre? Positively lucid. It's best to study Heidegger first, though, because B&N is really a piece of technical phenomenology with roots in Sartre's early interest in psychology (he previously wrote a Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions), rather than a manifesto for Existentialism. I get the impression it's been mis-sold to you in that respect.
My earlier attempt at answering this, with links, presumably fell prey to a URL-hating spam filter, but I think ('octopus' being from Greek) it woud be 'enneapus'.
You're going out on a bit of a limb with miserere; it appears to have been in full 'miserere mei' (loosely, 'pity me') that referred to ileus, and the OED marks the sense obs. (with a religious sense still current). Saying 'have pity' in Latin isn't very promising as an insult.
According to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7219803.stm 'the frogs had to be rescued from the wild':
'Scientists were forced to remove the remaining frogs from the wild and keep them in captivity.
'Hilary Jeffkins added: "The whole species is now extinct in Panama - this was one of the last remaining populations. Its final wave was in our programme."'
So it's sad, but not as sad as one might imagine from the post.
Sartre? Positively lucid. It's best to study Heidegger first, though, because B&N is really a piece of technical phenomenology with roots in Sartre's early interest in psychology (he previously wrote a Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions), rather than a manifesto for Existentialism. I get the impression it's been mis-sold to you in that respect.
'Scientists were forced to remove the remaining frogs from the wild and keep them in captivity.
'Hilary Jeffkins added: "The whole species is now extinct in Panama - this was one of the last remaining populations. Its final wave was in our programme."'
So it's sad, but not as sad as one might imagine from the post.
I got 'genius', so I'm ignoring them.