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This is Weiss's key point. Man is a brute and he always will be; his ideological fervor is only inspired by latent lust and violence. As Sade himself quips, "People join revolutions when the adrenaline builds up." The radical soapbox priest, Jacques Roux, is played by a vociferous, apoplectic inmate (Kristen Gasser) who is restrained by a gag. Aroused by Corday's ghoulish description of a beheading she witnessed in Paris, the patients play at guillotining each other, tossing about a large red ball--a dismembered head--and tittering like demons...
...conniving bitch. Such roles are an "outlet for women and their fantasies of power," suggests Tania Modleski, professor of film and literature at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. "But these fantasies are also negated at the same time, because it's not right for good women to lust for power. So they are put in the person of a villainess." Most feminists, however, seem to regard these characters benignly. "The dragon-lady character has always been a stereotype," points out Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will and Femininity. "But shows like Dallas at least give women...
...furnished with the spare elegance of a waiting room in limbo; the back wall suggests an opaque view of the hell one creates with other people. Quentin's inferno has been stoked by his belief that love in its modern forms - friendship, political idealism, familial responsibility, courtly lust - can conquer all. As he discovers in remembered scenes with his dying father, his doting scold of a mother, his colleagues in fair and foul weather, his bitter first wife and Maggie, love conquers nothing but the lover. It drains him, proves him inadequate, drives him toward madness. Suffocated by Maggie...
...suppliant. At a Catholic school he yearns to become a saint. Tormented by sexual feelings, he admits to his spiritual adviser that "two flies had landed on the page of one of my treatises and were fornicating and I didn't stop them." Conrad makes up for his lustful thoughts by committing holy books to memory and praying for the conversion of atheists. His confessions become so monotonously pure minded that his adviser feels certain that "the plant of lust in me had been well and truly desiccated." He is ready for the priesthood...
...This unusual childhood led to a great deal of sexual confusion ("I just felt that I wanted to be a girl more than a boy"), a lot of guilt, but no apologies. Not then, not ever. The book is bursting with raunchy backstage tales of orgies, voyeurism, drugs and lust, which are balanced off by Richard's periodic attempts to reform and to seek out the Lord...