/lit/ - Literature

>>23530556
I think about him when I masturbate

Is there a logical limit to how edgy and/or provocative a writer can get? Is there a ceiling on how much chaos you can incite with words?

>>23451201
Kant could never

>>23402170
Him.
And no, this isn't the edgy and disingenuous response you imagine it to be.

>>23374814
Please include him on this list.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220913143451/https://storieswithnebic.wordpress.com/2016/07/08/lights-out/

Why was he so cute bros

is this degen worth reading?

>>23279835
You think everyone experiences happiness in the same way?
>>23279888
based poste. it seems very silly to me for philosophizing types to attempt formulating an understanding of """objective""" good/evil in a world like this, in which different organisms & people & classes & such possess mutually exclusive, competing, incompatible needs & desires. what's """good""" for the lion isnt """good""" for the zebra isnt """good""" for the vulture isnt """good""" for the maggots

Why do people say this guy wrote smut when most scenes are just 4 pages of monologue about why murder and sodomy are fucking based? I don't find any of the sex stuff particularly arousing, just oddly humorous at times.

I've seen others claim that sade was actually writing secular religious texts, that the characters are intentionally written to be as evil as possible to produce a religious experience in the reader, drawing christ from negative space or something, but sade's writing style is just too funny for me to reproduce this experience.

Does anyone else feel this way? Like, eugénie de franval is supposed to be a demoralizing piece, but the imagery in my head had me loling at several points throughout the thing, even at the ending when the villain breaks down and begs the priest for forgiveness. Maybe it's the translator, I don't know why I can't take it seriously. It's like he can't help but write the story in a funny way, and I don't know if that's what he was going for.

>>23007759
>I am forgotten

>>22982063
All famous authors (and in general creatives) are to some degree bisexual

>*mogs Nietzsche*

I have seen recently in quite a few threads that De Sade "mogged" Nietzsche.

I don't know if it is one or multiple guys posting it, but it intrigued me and I would like someone to explain exactly how this "mogging" took place?

thoughts?

>>22901634
>French author
>Satanist rapist

every time

>>22840890
Yeah the 120 Days is one of the most boring things written. Try it and see. We aren't missing anything...

Did Sade have any influence on painting or sculpture? or other visual arts?

Literally me

>>22607851

>>22591583
Is there anyone who is honest with themselves, man or woman, who does not like rape?

>“Even the so-called intellectuals believe his pronounce-ments. Since he said so, it must be so. If there were real virtue in the world, as you say there is, would it survive upon such absurd means; would it be through the mouth of such rascals that it would show itself? Could not the mover of the stars in heaven influence men’s hearts itself; could it not engrave in the center of heaven the laws that would please all men from one corner of the earth to the other? Would your precious virtue indicate his desires only to this idol of yours, this vilest menial and craftiest rogue living in an ignored corner of Asia? No, Therese, I would rather die a thousand times than fall for such tripe!"

>"Oh, sirl" Justine replied, “would you deprive an unfortunate girl of her one sweet hope; would you crush within her heart her one consolation? I firmly believe that blows levelled at virtue are mostly due to the effects of lust and dissipation. How can I sacrifice the dearest flower of my mind, the dearest pearl of my heart to such blasphemies, to such horrible sophism"

This isn't a dig at Nietzsche btw; merely a reminder that even the good g*rmoid philolzolzolozlsophers ripped off the french.

Im anthony g and hes my hero and inspratuono