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I think there's no question when you say
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the word sod you think you think of
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monsters and whips and chains and evil
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and whatever it is
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you have Christianity came from McKay's
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name
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sadism came from sods name he was the
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ultimate rebel and when after his arrest
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he was being brought north to Paris by
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coach Saad became the OJ Simpson of his
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time there were crowds at every stop the
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word was out that the Marquis de Sade
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the monster was going to be and they
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wanted to catch a glimpse of this
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monster Saad is a major intellectual of
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the modern world
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one can see him as a decadent aristocrat
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as sort of the last gasp of a kind of
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degenerated feudalism or one can look at
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him as the first true modern who can
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imagine a world as Darwin would see it a
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world without God a world of a cold
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natural law that I think is so severe a
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vision that even many Meyers have not
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fully absorbed ultimate text or what I
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don't continue to cut the bass young so
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this is the state of the rape he wants
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to discover and to document every
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possible sexual fantasy that any human
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mind could ever conceive somewhere in
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the history of crime worldwide you can
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find an analogue to every single fantasy
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that saud imagined in his prison cell
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alone preparing food for Sofia the guy
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who has a protective seal if you take
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the most lurid moments of contemporary
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writers
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biet Henry Miller or Norman Mailer or
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Philip Roth they look like sweet
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Valentine's compared to the scenes in
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Assad and 200 years ago he simply
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reached out and pushed the limits
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further than anyone else I think that's
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part of his curious kind of genius
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we have a portrait of a young man aged
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17 by the artist van Lew which may be of
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saud in which he's quite young pretty
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with a little bob pigtail that's all
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that we have of him pictorially there's
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no real definite authentic
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representation of him he was a man born
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into the very high aristocracy of
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Provence and the aristocracy of Provence
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is notoriously arrogant notoriously
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self-indulgent in its pleasures
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if you want understand sad don't think
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18th century
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think 10th century you have to look on
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him like a feudal lord sitting on his
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mountaintop at Lacoste which is
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extremely representative of the
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topography of power which he would
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prefer making the law himself he had a
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rather unhappy childhood his mother just
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abandoned the family when he was about
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five and his father was a diplomat who
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was in disgrace much of his time because
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he was bisexual
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and his uncle took him over and brought
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him up sod was sent to live with his
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uncle at age five because he was such a
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problem child to his parents his uncle
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was an abbey man of the cloth and a very
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high-ranking man of the cloth years from
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five to ten but he spent there were very
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formative years in the show too so on
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but it is forbidding dark
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and the dungeons thereof reoccur without
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question and his work later on and
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Justina juliet and twenty days
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and Saad also learned as a very young
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boy that men of the cloth did not
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necessarily refrain from sexual ethics
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s's fusillade boosts circular place
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hairs just in circular place who in the
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budget
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sure lead after that I see his knee on
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the cross
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the abbot Assad had a mistress he had a
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mistress who lived in the Chateau and it
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is probable that he also dallied with
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his mistress's daughter so sod doing
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this had a rather jaundiced view of the
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church from a very early age
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and it affected him for the rest of his
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Sode hated the church because he thought
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it was hypocrisy he thought it was
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totally fairytales and nonsense and he
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said it throughout his life
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blasphemy was one of the sins with which
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he was imprisoned and then at the age of
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14 years underway to boarding school a
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Jesuit boarding school where they beat
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the students a great deal I mean very
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heavy physical punishment whipping on
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the buttocks publicly in front of the
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rest of the school and that lasted until
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he was 17 and then he went off to the
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war the Seven Years War and then after
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this rather disrupted childhood all he
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knew was the barracks life the macula
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sod is not very much of a sage Ian
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figure he spent a third his life in
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prison he was born in a chateau and
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ended his life in a madhouse he was not
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a very successful Dominator
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in many ways he was blamed for the sins
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all his class he isn't as awful as
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tradition would have it then there was
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an irrational as I was for most kids of
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the aristocracy when in the early 20s he
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and his wife actually were deeply fond
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of each other as much as he could be in
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love but he was in love with his wife
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her name is Palacio de Monte one of the
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problems he got into trouble was he
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refused the Kings invitation to go to
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the court to have his marriage blessed
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his wife went his wife family went his
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father went he refused to go she don't
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want him I don't want any truck with
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those people they're just awful all that
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fawning and all that hypocrisy I just
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can't stand it and there was this
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element of honesty about him he became a
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writer in effect because he was confined
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to a jail cell his mother-in-law was
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quite responsible for his writings she
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would turn over in her grave if she knew
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her name was Miranda mortified and at
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first she's immensely drawn to sob she
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finds him quite as attractive as a
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daughter does very sexy and so she finds
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it almost certain to troll Asian in
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reading and hearing at its exploits
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but then when he does something truly
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naughty in her eyes which is to commit
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apostasy with a prostitute then that
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goes too far and Madame de montreuil she
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starts to put the law down Easter Sunday
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1768 Saud stood in front of the statue
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of louis xiv and noticed the beggar
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woman in front of a church and he
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approached her and asked her to come
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with him one of his first escapades with
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the law he went with the prostitute so
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they spent the night together
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but he made her trample on the crucifix
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say I deny God I deny Christ I mean so
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forth and so on she believed that he was
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asking her to clean his house in the
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country he believed that he was hiring
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her as a prostitute in any case she went
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with him what was on a rose Keller she
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said she thought he was stabbing her
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with a small pin knife he said he never
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did she said he was dripping hot wax on
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her buttocks and he said he never did
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and after a time she said are you trying
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to kill me but she was very smart and
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she bolted the door from inside and she
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created from the sheets on the bed away
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to escape and she sued him under civil
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law for the harm that had been done to
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her but his mother-in-law paid off the
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debt and that made Rose Keller in the
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eyes of most of the people who write
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about her the predator because she took
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money
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he was sent to Vincennes under a letter
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to cachet which was an instrument that a
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king could use to seclude wayward sons
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of the nobility so that they couldn't
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cause scandal families or domicile
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Judson this is a form of arrest which
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came without any trial and which came
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upon the Capra's and whim of a king what
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do you think of the relationship between
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son and his mother
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I think she's the only woman who stood
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up to him
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over a period of time the only one who
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tried to stop him from doing what he was
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she's like the Furies in Greek tragedy I
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mean she really is pursuing the male for
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having broken up that calm peaceful
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harmony which women impose on the order
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of society you have to look on him like
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a four-year-old child who is not
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socialized yet who wants what he wants
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all the time and is screaming for it
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that's that's the way you look at this
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adds temperament it's a profoundly
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infantile mentality mixed into an
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extremely sophisticated intellectual
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development he lost his fortune he was
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terrible with money he could not manage
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his marriage he could not manage his
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mother-in-law he could he could manage
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none of the regimes under which he lived
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sad was in many ways a total failure he
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was a disaster he was of course a
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triumph in his own mind and that is
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where most of his books come from they
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come from the time that he spent in
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prison when he was in solitary
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confinement when he was he'll when he
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was depressed when he was not entirely
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in control of his
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there's no question that he never would
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have been a writer of any stature had he
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not been sent to prison all of his major
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work was really from the period when he
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went into Vincennes in 1774 until 1790
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that's a 16 year period was when he
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wrote almost everything that exists
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today prison did terrible things to the
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Marquis designed his novels are full of
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chambers underground passages mountain
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fastnesses monasteries which are lost in
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dark forests which are unapproachable
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except by extraordinary means there is
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this claustrophobia in the novel facade
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which seems to me very much to reflect a
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certain mental attitude which was forced
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on him what is it about his work that's
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socially the work is so antisocial not
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only in the sexual context of the term
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but sought was a revolutionary sod was
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someone who was out to take society and
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turn it on his head and by the time he
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went into prison he lived enough to have
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certain ideas about the world and about
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his own sexuality and about sexuality in
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general to write about it for the first
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time in history he saw society as a
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conspiracy mounted by the weak to stop
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the progress of the strong
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his life life in prison it's not like
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any life in prison we know now it was
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extremely luxurious a nobleman was
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allowed to bring into a good jail
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Bastille was really the four-star jail
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he's allowed to bring his tapestries his
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curtains his dogs a few domestics his
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his piano his harp most appurtenances of
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a decent home and he was vastly obese by
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the time he had been in jail for seven
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or eight years he weighed probably 300
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pounds he had his libraries
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he had a secretary it was really
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extremely conducive this life to writing
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books
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I think sod has to simply be treated as
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though we treat the rest of pornography
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you know what I object to is making sod
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into a literary man that I object to
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he's a pornographer that's it that's
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what he is he's just another predatory
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pimp the 120 days of Sodom is quite the
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most gruesome book I think that I've
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ever come across
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it's in four parts only the first part
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of which was was written and the rest is
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a kind of catalog actually he calls it a
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menu of 600 horrible things that you can
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do to other people
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singly in pairs or collectively in
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groups
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I think pornography's main interest is
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to allay anxiety to present the sexual
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scene in such a soft easy mode that you
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don't become disturbed at watching it
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sods book 120 days of Sodom is designed
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to arouse anxiety its nervous reading
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and the early ones are quite maybe
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disgusting but they involve I think his
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number three is a priest who likes to
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suck the snot out of little girl's nose
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there's a boy who has his penis cut off
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and a red-hot poker to enlarge his anus
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and he is turned into a kind of woman
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and as you read on you know it's only
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going to get worse and it takes a kind
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of courage I think of the stomach or the
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mind as well to read the whole book
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a great film is pazely nice subtle
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modernizes sounds work but it preserves
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the spirit of it almost of a letter
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what do you think of Pasolini sailor I
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made me feel quite ill I was sorry I
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went to see it boomed well main Bell
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it's a transposition of the plot of that
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logic to the collapse of Mussolini's
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fascist dictatorship our akhantar a moon
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on a theory a dear accompli passions of
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these four Libertines assad would have
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called them are excited by for elder
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women who were like [ __ ] your asses who
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tell erotic tales a or Neela he vias are
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after me since 1945 and what we know of
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the Holocaust sad seems to be a very
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modern author all of a sudden he accepts
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human nature for what it is not very
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pleasant and he tears away the the
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flimsy veil of sociability that we've
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plastered over this horrible monster
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that lies beneath and sad says come out
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of your hole it's playtime away you go
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the whole Nazi thing and latterly to a
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but to a lesser regimented degree the
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Russian gulags and so forth revealed
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revealed something the world had thought
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did not exist that Assad initial aim to
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circumvent it a la vista de la cañada
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macho Gregorio is so prolific Jordi's
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aji they really passionately put a
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realistic see one of the major mistakes
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made by contemporary admirers of Saud is
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that he was a liberal that in some way
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his endorsement of free sex of the free
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sexual impulse is the same thing as
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progressive politics but on the contrary
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he is in political terms totalitarian or
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or rather he believes in the rule of the
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strong of the best principle that looks
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forward to Nietzsche's Superman
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um Cora Saad tests our limits he breaks
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through every standard of decorum and
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taste he pushes these primal buttons I
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think of disgust and revulsion he's not
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just about sex as attraction he attracts
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you he lures you in only in order to to
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get his his claws into your brain and
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then to torture you to make you want to
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vomit
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it's about the crudity and the barbarism
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of human physiology I know I support the
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Hobby give a subpoena second particle
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see the antibodies to the Jennifer Dodd
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GJ yva Kelly screaming Nicolas treviño /
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Benicio Del Rey Chester true dr. Kapoor
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set up to support a pozzolan near vivo
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you need a broker at all of in la vela
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damage people done men fear women
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because they fear women's power to
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reduce them every time a heterosexual
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man has sex with a woman he's making a
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very charged journey back to the site of
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his origins and so he tried he needs a
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job and a man needs to dominate woman
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and a woman needs to allow man to think
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that he is dominating her in the sex act
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or otherwise because men cannot function
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men will just collapse into it into a
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job into impotence
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and a Bastille of course he had 120 days
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of sodom which he wrote there and hid in
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the wall and when he was moved out of
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the Bastille he left it and it was only
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recently published in this in the in the
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20th century he called it the most
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impure book that was ever written since
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the world began you know reading sounds
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work he's still difficult it's both
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sometimes boring as people have pointed
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out in a repetitive relentless kind of
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procession of of grotesque acts and
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genuinely morally repulsive quite a lot
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of the time but that sense of moral
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repulsion is a part of what Sardis is
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exploring all working at
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so many of them are childish silly
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stupid pranks so many of them are evil
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and frightening I don't think you'll
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read a more disturbing book
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he wants to make you uncomfortable
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that's one of the things about sudden I
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think you need both hands steady to to
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read him you're not going to hold the
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book with one hand if you're reading
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Saad he was a very difficult prisoner he
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abused turnkeys he satirized the
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governor he would make trouble all the
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time his correspondence was sensitive of
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course and renée's his wife's
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correspondence was censored as well so
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that when you read the letters in the
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bibliothèque nationale you find big
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black marks covering sometimes half the
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page almost all the letter things that
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were not permitted to be said the French
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Revolution had a period where anything
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went new ideas sexual Liberty etc he was
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obsessed there were demons in this band
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and his fantasies were wild
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what we consider to be pornography at
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the time was a mixture of political
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satire anti religious philosophy and um
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and pure sex his work philosophy in the
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boudoir is a mixture of all these with
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her your head between her legs so that
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you can sucker clip than usual exchange
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places so that I may suck your [ __ ]
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like what [ __ ] Juliet once more while
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you rub her [ __ ] we shall all come
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together in that position together
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the philosophy in the bedroom is a
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pastiche import commuting incest
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adultery sodomy and lesbianism all at
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the same time yesterday he was still a
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virgin I'm not I find it's a hilarious
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book as a pastiche and I think it's a
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deeply sophisticated book which meant to
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make people laugh there's no such thing
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as crime in nature's eyes what do you
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mean if for example I would have murder
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you for the sake of my orgasm you
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considered a crime for us I would
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consider it a pleasure he carried
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anarchy
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to the ultimate in his ideal society no
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anybody would be free to do anything
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they wanted now that's dangerous for any
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regime generosity charity goodwill to
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others for food look at the real world
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who would think that sensible people
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take all they can get damn anyone who
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gets in the way we are born enemies
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Julian that is Nature's Way if we were
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intended to be brothers we would not
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have been given such savage passions and
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desires who would not have been created
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to feel nothing of others suffering much
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less to enjoy it
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listen to nature and doing it and follow
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her plan but mr. doorman the Bible says
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it is mentioned the Bible words born led
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the words elude us he makes the same
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calculation as existentialist man does
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there is no God there are no values by
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which I can leave my life so what do I
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do your ideas excite me mr. Dolman I
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would like to commit some crimes I would
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like to have a victim ah
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of what sort a woman I would torment her
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and make her absolutely miserable I'm
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impressed with the progress I've made
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with her young pupil engine you've done
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a remarkable job mr. Dolman I agree
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sods orgies are undoubtedly absurd the
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illustrations which he oversaw for the
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publication of his work you look at them
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and think these are not erotic these are
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not eternal in any way I think they were
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joke I think sad was a man who was
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looking for extremes and everything you
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did in literature or in sex he was
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interested in testing the borders how
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far can one go in experiments in sexual
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coupling so that you have these
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extraordinary it would be used to call
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daisy-chained I don't know if that's
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still a term and I think he had a kind
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of thrilled which was almost like a
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mathematical thrill in seeing how far
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and how complicated his couplings
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could be
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he was a survival artist and he suddenly
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pretended that he was on the side of the
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revolution and acted like a
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revolutionary in June 1789 a month
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before the storming of the Bastille Saad
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became very angry and ripped a pissing
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tube from the wall of his cell kind of
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funnel like object and began haranguing
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the crowds below saying that the
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prisoners were being killed using the
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tube as the megaphone exactly the
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National Assembly abolished lettre de
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cachet and then Saad had to be released
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even against the wishes of madame de
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menthe Roy who tried to keep him in the
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one person he has in mind when he's
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writing in my opinion is met him to
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betray the hated woman who is the cause
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of all his grief in 1792 he was in a
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position of power in the Revolutionary
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Committees and the names of his in-laws
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appeared on a list of would be Aimee
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gray which meant in effect the death
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penalty would follow all Morris
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automatically and sad used his influence
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to have their names removed he refused
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to take his revenge on the people who
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had deprived him of liberty during most
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of his years as a man
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this is the title page and the
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frontispiece
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off the first edition Cristina 1791 is a
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simple rule of nature that the wicked
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will flourish and the good must founder
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the year after he got out of prison in
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1790 he published Justine any woman who
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goes out into the world not knowing that
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somebody is likely to hurt her that's
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the Justine woman and that would be
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almost all of us most of the time what
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do you consider his masterpiece to be
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probably Justine probably Justine how
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about you petite 17 later Justine is
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younger by yeah really
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how nice Justine as she gets her sisters
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separated at birth and both 13 there's a
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innocence about Justine which never
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never she never loses no matter how much
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she's berated no matter how much she's
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taken advantage of she's raped numerous
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times she's branded she's imprisoned she
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still maintains somehow this belief that
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good will triumph and sad is saying
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forget about it
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Steen come on just in time to the chains
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exactly for sad virtue is a kind of
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vacuum in nature virtue is without
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energy and therefore becomes a kind of
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magnetic attraction to the forces of
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evil
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[Music]
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what about Justine I think she's the
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model of the masochist who goes through
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life being oppressed and offended and
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suppressed and beaten I'm being rather
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psychoanalytic here but I think that is
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the masochist inside I think the
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masochism was even more important in his
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psychological makeup than the sadism if
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you study the pattern of his sexual
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exploits you will find that he's almost
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more often asking to be whipped than he
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is whipping women women
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well she loved him throughout prison and
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you might want to say that well maybe he
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was easier to love in prison when he was
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released from Charenton after the
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Revolution she formally separated from
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from him and would not see him again if
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she dies of Juliette her sister looking
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very happy
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[Music]
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job also by the way in society should
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not probably enter into but was very
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much a feminist before the time I chose
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you must remember that Juliet is an
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extraordinary phenomenon of feminine
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freedom would you rather be a mistress
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than a [ __ ] Sods women were out
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sexually free as the men I seen the
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correlation of Juliet as Madonna as a
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woman who has infinite amount of
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transformations and a kind of protein
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personality I see that and who can act
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out a lot of sodomy masochistic
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fantasies sod can be said to have
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created some of the most intellectually
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and psychologically forceful women
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characters in literature I have no idea
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about a psychology at all and I don't
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care I only care about what he did and
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it enrages me not science work that
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doesn't enrage me what enrages me is the
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way that his biographers have treated
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his life because it's not funny most of
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what he wrote about he did
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he used forces part of sex and he used
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it against women and children whom he
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kidnapped that's what he did that's what
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is in common between his life and his
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work that's a lot to have in common he
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whipped prostitutes and it must be
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recognized that in his time in his
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generation prostitutes were not Lacan
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looked upon as human beings that's
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extremely regrettable but let's face the
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fact they were a kind of almost animal
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species and so you can't really condemn
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him any more for his mores then you
629
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could condemn Thomas Jefferson for
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owning slaves I think there is a
631
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parallel I would draw the conclusion
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that at some point early in his life one
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of the women that sought assaulted
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should have killed him
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that's the conclusion that I draw
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feminists who are hostile to Assad are
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hostile to the entire modern experience
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because in dismissing Saad you are
639
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dismissing everything that Darwin and
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Freud also said that is the idea that we
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are innately aggressive beings that we
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are born not necessarily bad but with an
643
00:37:41,869 --> 00:37:53,119
impulse toward egotistical dominance
644
00:37:47,500 --> 00:37:56,300
bosses this is why I believe that Assad
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should be required reading for all
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feminists and in all women she should be
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on the curriculum if you think Saad is
648
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legitimate you think pornography is
649
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legitimate and Saad then becomes the
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intellectual of pornographers but
651
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pornography in general I think requires
652
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that one believe that women and children
653
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are lesser human beings I think they've
654
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taken him too seriously because I think
655
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that there is a lot of the buffoon
656
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inside it's he's an exhibitionist he's a
657
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child
658
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standing on the ramparts or the gates of
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his house saying look at me look at me
660
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and pissing down below or masturbating
661
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publicly the this is the naughty
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exhibitionist child who was I think deep
663
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in the heart of every man that most men
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repress and this is what did the
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literature is about
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so for me site is a hero of imagination
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I don't admire his life but in but few
668
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artists or intellectuals lives
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in fact uh you know show the kind of
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qualities that we would expect let's say
671
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in a man of the church
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[Music]
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the sadhus initially imprisoned before
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sexual misdemeanors at the instigation
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of his mother-in-law when the final time
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came when he was imprisoned at
677
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Shackleton this was due to his his
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writings he was seized at his publishers
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with a brand new edition of Juliet with
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incredible pornographic illustrations
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and he was thrown into Chantal this was
682
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a mental wish the mental asylum
683
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this is quite common just because he was
684
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thrown into mental asylum doesn't mean
685
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he was insane is the conventional means
686
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of getting rid of of unwelcome members
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of society and there he died at the age
688
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of 74 in 1814 in his sleep as peaceful
689
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as any Christian a confessor was sent to
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him in his last hour and he peacefully
691
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recited its confession like a good
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Catholic
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[Music]
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so restless this is the scale of machi
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the shot the cast because we don't have
696
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the original you know it was stolen
697
00:41:15,579 --> 00:41:22,420
somewhere Logan is associated behind you
698
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not either side once again I don't see
699
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her push more having a phrenology he was
700
00:41:25,420 --> 00:41:28,930
considered to be such a maverick that
701
00:41:26,829 --> 00:41:33,429
his skull was open and his brain taken
702
00:41:28,929 --> 00:41:36,609
out for study and the phrenologist who
703
00:41:33,429 --> 00:41:39,699
studied his skull and his brain made a
704
00:41:36,610 --> 00:41:41,140
report saying these skull shows of
705
00:41:39,699 --> 00:41:45,789
following character traits
706
00:41:41,139 --> 00:41:48,879
chasity rectitude self-discipline all in
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00:41:45,789 --> 00:41:50,190
all it could be the skull of a father of
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the church
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[Music]
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00:41:56,150 --> 00:42:04,559
Yoshida said hotel - esteemed former
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00:42:00,090 --> 00:42:07,680
associate Donny can not looking class to
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reproduce para donar personally nobler
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00:42:07,679 --> 00:42:12,869
they appreciate what's the origin of his
714
00:42:10,079 --> 00:42:15,000
name being is its first used in medical
715
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dictionaries in eighteen in the middle
716
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1830s and France and it's used as a
717
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description of a very grave mental
718
00:42:22,469 --> 00:42:28,799
disease that has to do with harming
719
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others in the 19th century writers like
720
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:35,250
flow Barre Baudelaire were aware of
721
00:42:31,139 --> 00:42:36,690
sart's work and always were interested
722
00:42:35,250 --> 00:42:40,260
in that sort of darker side if you like
723
00:42:36,690 --> 00:42:43,200
of human experience and then one of the
724
00:42:40,260 --> 00:42:45,120
most politically oriented avant-garde
725
00:42:43,199 --> 00:42:47,069
movements of 20th century art the
726
00:42:45,119 --> 00:42:49,230
Surrealists rediscovered Sartre and
727
00:42:47,070 --> 00:42:51,320
transformed his reputation into a
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00:42:49,230 --> 00:42:54,380
philosophical and revolutionary hero
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[Music]
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this is the drawing of Lacoste Stadium
731
00:42:57,679 --> 00:43:04,230
in Lacoste itself and the Chateau of the
732
00:43:01,010 --> 00:43:07,710
market yourself what was there
733
00:43:04,230 --> 00:43:09,599
interesting well I think it had to be
734
00:43:07,710 --> 00:43:12,030
played a quite an important role in in
735
00:43:09,599 --> 00:43:15,360
surrealism many I think because of his
736
00:43:12,030 --> 00:43:16,680
politics and his anti-establishment view
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00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,570
about life
738
00:43:16,679 --> 00:43:19,949
this was the Marseille Peck who know
739
00:43:18,570 --> 00:43:21,210
they were doing these in Marseille
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00:43:19,949 --> 00:43:23,189
before they escaped
741
00:43:21,210 --> 00:43:25,470
well the Surrealists are really the ones
742
00:43:23,190 --> 00:43:26,760
who reserved records odd because at the
743
00:43:25,469 --> 00:43:30,509
beginning of the war they went down to
744
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:36,180
Marseille dancer what is he it's hard to
745
00:43:30,510 --> 00:43:39,410
see the surrealist so inside
746
00:43:36,179 --> 00:43:42,239
transgression sad tour of the rulebook
747
00:43:39,409 --> 00:43:44,460
sod did everything in
748
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:49,589
in a completely different way and who's
749
00:43:44,460 --> 00:43:52,050
this one Freud Sigmund Freud and he was
750
00:43:49,590 --> 00:43:54,180
completely frank about his personal life
751
00:43:52,050 --> 00:43:56,910
his thoughts his sexuality
752
00:43:54,179 --> 00:44:01,349
he simply rejected all the bric-a-brac
753
00:43:56,909 --> 00:44:03,569
of intellectual rational ecclesiastical
754
00:44:01,349 --> 00:44:06,299
theological philosophical assumptions
755
00:44:03,570 --> 00:44:07,920
and started a game I think the other
756
00:44:06,300 --> 00:44:11,400
element of saud that was important for
757
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:13,680
early surrealist work was his
758
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:16,019
anti-clericalism his hatred of the
759
00:44:13,679 --> 00:44:20,129
Christian Church in particular here's
760
00:44:16,019 --> 00:44:23,489
the nun who's exposing her breasts and
761
00:44:20,130 --> 00:44:29,690
here behind her is a sexual orgy
762
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commonality of what could be challenges
763
00:44:29,690 --> 00:44:35,820
well I think it's I think just crept in
764
00:44:33,690 --> 00:44:39,599
I think it could be almost an imaginary
765
00:44:35,820 --> 00:44:42,570
portrait of sound symbol of the
766
00:44:39,599 --> 00:44:46,529
surrealist later on did portraits what
767
00:44:42,570 --> 00:44:47,730
they thought they don't know and there
768
00:44:46,530 --> 00:44:49,859
was the project of making kind of
769
00:44:47,730 --> 00:44:52,710
imaginary portraits of saud which the
770
00:44:49,858 --> 00:44:54,750
eldest man ray did of making substitute
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00:44:52,710 --> 00:45:07,840
portraits was hard
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[Music]
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that man and behind that guy I have to
774
00:45:11,539 --> 00:45:20,269
accept such explain that lady I would
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00:45:18,889 --> 00:45:23,559
sit between fourteen fifty thousand
776
00:45:20,269 --> 00:45:28,369
pounds it's a very rare suite of place
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00:45:23,559 --> 00:45:33,380
the question is to know if these plates
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have an autograph influencing son and
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00:45:33,380 --> 00:45:38,990
you've got all the emblematic of the
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death in the borders which is one of the
781
00:45:38,989 --> 00:45:43,759
proof that the page could be autograph I
782
00:45:40,730 --> 00:45:47,750
mean influenced by said well I'll tell
783
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:52,660
you something else this is so it's
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curtains just give me the stone
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00:45:53,039 --> 00:45:57,660
it's an emblematic moment with
786
00:45:54,568 --> 00:46:02,969
photobombs well where are you seeing
787
00:45:57,659 --> 00:46:06,389
that sad is very connected because it's
788
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in between literature and erotica books
789
00:46:06,389 --> 00:46:11,699
it had a strong influence on the
790
00:46:08,668 --> 00:46:14,068
surrealist so all the people who are
791
00:46:11,699 --> 00:46:16,709
connecting Solaris books must have first
792
00:46:14,068 --> 00:46:18,989
editions of sad energies part of French
793
00:46:16,708 --> 00:46:21,808
literature and vineyards another
794
00:46:18,989 --> 00:46:25,739
surrealist who worshipped him and did a
795
00:46:21,809 --> 00:46:33,390
film version vaguely based on hundred
796
00:46:25,739 --> 00:46:35,400
days of Sodom right at the end of the
797
00:46:33,389 --> 00:46:37,048
film the last figure to emerge is
798
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:41,939
clearly meant to be the figure of Jesus
799
00:46:37,048 --> 00:46:45,179
Christ and now this is not inside a
800
00:46:41,938 --> 00:46:49,518
novel but Boone well did it is this kind
801
00:46:45,179 --> 00:46:49,519
of scandalous anti-clerical gesture
802
00:46:49,668 --> 00:46:55,259
southern France and cinema is less in
803
00:46:52,978 --> 00:46:56,519
terms of themes than the way it's
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watched
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[Music]
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the classic example is of the final girl
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who's locked in a almost like a haunted
808
00:47:11,659 --> 00:47:16,459
house this is the gothic novel which
809
00:47:13,759 --> 00:47:19,188
isn't an inherited from Sodom in
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prostitute by Blair for zones a
811
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libertine poverty poverty which is again
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the same somatic is reverse get up
813
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prostitute the Azores you got a 50
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00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:40,169
direct line therefore from Assad is the
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gothic novel horror to the Horomia
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[Music]
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I mean this is not erotic a photographic
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to Detroit because it does not incite
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you to commit the sexual acts at all
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it's like a dose of saltpeter reading
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sad so why should we pay any attention
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to because the prose is very beautiful
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and because he tests at the borders of
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literature and because he did set out
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the most radical notions of Liberty ever
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set forth by probably any thinker in
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Western civilization
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[Music]
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so if he's endured I think it's because
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he was ahead of his time and in many
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ways time has caught up with him he
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would chortle today if he were to walk
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through some of the areas of the world
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or to go on the internet I think he
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would be quite pleased with himself that
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this repression had been lifted and he
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would say to himself I suspect I had
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something to do with that but it's in
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the second half of the 20th century that
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Sad has emerged really as the voice of
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liberation liberating late twentieth
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century civilization from its allusions
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the idea that we can control history the
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idea that a set of laws is a
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satisfactory way of running a society
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the idea that there are moral values by
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which we should judge our actions in
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fact once sad the demolition magazine
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there isn't very much left and of course
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at the end of the 20th century that is
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exactly
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should you go to bed or watch another
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channel for program get the answer from
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the ask fate game on the Masters of
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Darkness website at channel 4 comm
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history next week's master of darkness
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is queen elizabeth's magician at the
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earlier time of 10 o'clock still real
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life next tonight with love off the
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streets
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[Music]
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you
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