Word: mother-in-law
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MARQUIS DE SADE, SELECTED LETTERS, edited by Gilbert Lély. From Vincennes prison and the lunatic asylum at Charenton, the Marquis de Sade wrote to his mother-in-law, his wife and his valet hoping that someone would understand him. He remains an enigma whose habit of acting out monstrous fantasies made his name an eponym for the pain that, to some, gives pleasure...
...also wrote letters, mostly to his wife, his mother-in-law, his mistress and his valet. Unlike his fictive fantasies, these painful letters are not designed to give pleasure. Most of them are wheedling pleas to be let out of prison, or the usual prisoner's complaint about the food or the class of person he is compelled to associate with. Some are funny, some unconsciously so, including one in which he suggests that a few girls as cellmates would relieve him of the urge to write books...
...been accused of kidnaping young girls, and there was a suspicion of murder); 2) the victim was only a whore; 3) others do as bad-like judges and cardinals; 4) he couldn't help it (forgetting that if that were so, his mother-in-law couldn't help wanting him locked up); 5) it was all a conspiracy (again by his mother-in-law, who wanted his estates); 6) he was a special case; and, finally and sadly, 7) he wasn't doing it any more; he had, as it were, left off beating his wife. This...
Despite stiffening competition from large manufacturers, many small and nimble entrepreneurs have outmaneuvered the lumbering giants by marketing simple or highly specialized products. Atlanta's Alvin Weeks, 41, started out by whipping up divinity fudge on his mother-in-law's stove, got the idea of producing pastries in easy-to-heat foil pans; this year his Aunt Fanny's Baking Co. will sell $6,000,000 worth of sweet rolls. Cincinnati's Joseph McVicker, 35, who took a lump of wallpaper cleaner and made it into one of the nation's most popular toys...
...From his letters, you'd get the impression he was on a vacation," said the mother-in-law of a U.S. Army lieutenant when she learned last week that he had been wounded in a fierce nighttime confrontation with the Viet Cong in South Viet Nam. "We never knew he was in the thick of things...