the narrator is a young hypochondriac imagining his old age and ultimate death (by lung cancer?) and borrows a lot from the prufrock poem - or at least has a lot of allusions to the poem. he seems like he's wondering if he should quit smoking - he should. it has nothing at all to do with cocaine. i think the play by sartre he is talking about is no exit.
the narrator is a young hypochondriac imagining his old age and ultimate death (by lung cancer?) and borrows a lot from the prufrock poem - or at least has a lot of allusions to the poem. he seems like he's wondering if he should quit smoking - he should. it has nothing at all to do with cocaine. i think the play by sartre he is talking about is no exit.