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...open spiritual insurrection. There are those who flee into rebellion as if it were a second country, like Lenin or Garibaldi or T. E. Lawrence, or find in it a devout clique of followers, like Freud or Sartre. And there are those who carry rebellion to insanity, like Sade and Hitler...
...Immortals of the sedate Académie Française recently received an intriguing parcel from an unknown donor. In the mail came the most literary pornographic novel since the Marquis de Sade. Called L'Histoire d'O, it once moved Catholic Paul Claudel to remark, "All priests should read it so they may have an exact sense of sin." The parcel was intended to prejudice academicians against electing the man who had written the book's preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand...
Fatal Mistake. As portrayed by most singers, Lulu has the morals of an alley cat and the tastes of the Marquis de Sade: in three acts she destroys three husbands before making the fatal mistake of picking up Jack the Ripper on a London street. Coloratura Carroll saw Lulu differently-as a kind of child of nature whose body enslaved her. To make her point, small (5 ft. 4 in.), shapely Coloratura Carroll appeared in some of the wispiest costumes ever seen on a Hannover stage. Her performance was consistently convincing, and her singing-even in the treacherous passages...
This is straight out of the Marquis de Sade, with some Sartrean existentialist glosses provided by the doctor's morphine-addicted mistress ("The world is foul, Commissioner, rotting like a badly stored fruit") and a trained nurse who has written a pamphlet titled: Death, Goal and Purpose of Our Life, A Practical Guide. In the end, Barlach sweats out the ticking last hours, minutes, seconds before the time set for the operation he knows will end in his own death under the doctor's sadistic knife. Pat to the final instant comes Salvation, in the mysterious appearance...
...mysterious absence, will never do as well. Deep down, Deep is mushy. He sticks to one crazy beautiful 6-ft.-tall dame, and all he does is slap her once across, watching "the red seep back into her face." Could any fan show his face at the De Sade A.C. carrying a book this mild...