at the level of jellyfish

"When i was little, my aunt Bigeois told me, "if you look at yourself too long in the mirror, you'll see a monkey." I must have looked at myself even longer than that: what i see is well below the monkey, on the fringe of the vegetable world, at the level of jellyfish. It is alive, i cant say it isn't; but this was not the life that Anny contemplated: i see a slight tremor, i see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon. The eyes especially are horrible seen so close. they are glassy, soft, blind, red-rimmed, they look like fish scales."

- NAUSEA, Jean Paul Sarte