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maderrBecause I'm only on the essays at the beginning and am already snickering.
Memo to me: Look up Simone de Beauvoir. This isn't my normal realm of academia, so I know nothing about the scholars and whathaveyou involved. Except Ms. Simone is so entirely fangirling. For serious. There's a difference b/t being fascinated by a person and fangirling him. I love and am fascinated by the Emperor Meiji. I fangirl the Tokugawa Yoshinobu. This means I can talk entirley too much about the former, but embarass myself doing so with the latter. Ms. Simone is so entirely fangirling.
I don't think I'll make it through the actual novels and plays.
Oh. Am reading 120 Days of Sodom & Other Writings.
Madame de Beauvoir has a gift for stating the fucking obvious, at least in this "landmark essay" fronting the book. Honestly. Sade tried to make a point by pissing off his readers? You think? What a novel idea! No one throughtout history has ever tired that, nor has anyone ever noticed. How clever of you to point it out to us.
She's also about as contradictory as she claims her subject to be.
Near as I can tell, Sade's works are going to give me a headache. But it's a vampire kind of headache -- I can bitch about it for ages and have ever so much fun doing so. If that makes any sense.
Memo to me: Look up Simone de Beauvoir. This isn't my normal realm of academia, so I know nothing about the scholars and whathaveyou involved. Except Ms. Simone is so entirely fangirling. For serious. There's a difference b/t being fascinated by a person and fangirling him. I love and am fascinated by the Emperor Meiji. I fangirl the Tokugawa Yoshinobu. This means I can talk entirley too much about the former, but embarass myself doing so with the latter. Ms. Simone is so entirely fangirling.
I don't think I'll make it through the actual novels and plays.
Oh. Am reading 120 Days of Sodom & Other Writings.
Madame de Beauvoir has a gift for stating the fucking obvious, at least in this "landmark essay" fronting the book. Honestly. Sade tried to make a point by pissing off his readers? You think? What a novel idea! No one throughtout history has ever tired that, nor has anyone ever noticed. How clever of you to point it out to us.
She's also about as contradictory as she claims her subject to be.
Near as I can tell, Sade's works are going to give me a headache. But it's a vampire kind of headache -- I can bitch about it for ages and have ever so much fun doing so. If that makes any sense.
