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6404595 No.6404595 [Reply] [Original]

Why don't you read the Marquis, lads? He's edgy, humorous and writes 4chan flavoured Platonic dialogues.

>> No.6404601

>>6404595
I have. Why are you so presumptuous?

>> No.6404610

>>6404595
I was reading Juliette but got bored halfway through.

>> No.6404611

>>6404601
Because it's the only way to get people to reply to your OP tbh.

>> No.6404615

>>6404610
I enjoyed Philosophy in the Bedroom the most. It's shorter, not as repetitive, mostly dialogue and written as a play. Best introduction to his work, I think.

A lot of people actually start with 120 Days of Sodom, which is unfortunate since it's an unfinished piece of shit.

>> No.6404665

Mark?

>> No.6404676

>>6404595
Read Justine, wasn't a huge fan. It just got extremely formulaic.

>> No.6404679

>>6404611
this, people starting threads mostly just want to talk about a topic but coming up with an original comment is tough.

>> No.6404689

>>6404665
?

>> No.6404713

He makes me roll my eyes in a bad way.

If his name didn't have the connotations it does he would be entirely forgotten.

>> No.6404726

>>6404713
But his name has those connotations because he was the first to write about such things. So he's rightly remembered.

His materialist egoist hedonism was also pretty remarkable for the time.

>> No.6404735

>>6404726
He was a radical republican who wrote black humor. To take him at face value would be like taking Tom Lehrer at face value.

>> No.6404803

>>6404735
You don't need to take him at face value for the theories presented in his work to be remarkable for the time though.