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...envy of some of the finest punsters in the language. In the current Harper's, Rhymester Lamport, 47, wife of a Harvard law professor, turns her pen to the sick state of the American stage. Excerpts from her Gallagher-and-Shean routine, titled Mr. Masoch and Count de Sade...
...Masoch, Oh, Mr. Masoch! Is there something that disturbs you, Count de Sade? I'm surprised that every play Whether on or off Broadway Seems to star us- don't you find it rather...
...Life and Ideas of the Marquis de Sade, by Geoffrey Gorer. British Anthropologist Gorer makes De Sade seem more rake than sadist, but he makes clear why De Sade's writings were revived by existentialist thinkers...
...Sade's rage at the world was irrepressible. In two other novels, Justine and Juliette, he created an aristocracy of sexual perverts who inhabit lonely castles where they have unlimited license to commit foul crimes; where the most heroic is the most corrupt; where the true heroine does not try to preserve her virtue but to lose it as quickly as possible. Eventually, De Sade could not put on paper crimes vicious enough to satisfy him. "To attack the sun," he wrote, "to deprive the universe of it or to use it to set the world ablaze -these would...
Free again, De Sade gave up public life in disgust and returned to his private orgies. Accused of writing an obscene pamphlet ridiculing Napoleon and Josephine, he was incarcerated for the last time-in an insane asylum. There he amused the inmates by staging his plays, which had flopped outside the asylum but were a big hit within. "This man is not insane," De Sade's last doctor declared, "he is just mad about vice." Despite that madness, De Sade's writing showed an early insight into the makeup of man. Before Freud, De Sade saw that cruelty...