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2012-09-06 08:50 2959665 Anonymous (illustration-from-works-by-the-marquis-de-sade.jpg 338x450 51kB)
Why does anyone try to defend de Sade's literary itegrity, he has none . Firstly his philosophy is really unremarkable. He equates having an appetite with an entitlement to satiate it. This sort of justification and distorted thinking is common with aristocrats. Truly anything de Sade had to say about the human condition was ignorant, self-serving and lacking in rhetorical value. All he did was write smut jarringly interspersed with tedious essays expounding his sophistries. People sometimes tell me in spite of this that his prose is exceptional. I strongly disagree on that count. He utilizes little in the way of literary devices and his writing was probably very average for a member of the French nobility.

5 min later 2959672 Anonymous
>>2959665 >tedious essays expounding his sophistries I know this is /lit/ but you are trying too hard

5 min later 2959674 Anonymous
>>2959665 > Why does anyone try to defend de Sade's literary itegrity... They're idiots who like eating shit, both literally and figuratively.

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