Word: sadeness
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...Octavio Paz, Mexico's most distinguished poet and essayist (TIME, Jan. 29), impresses the reader as one of the most provocative thinkers in the West. Gracefully, lucidly, he talks of topics as diverse as the rebellion of modern youth ("an explosion of despair"), the art of Marcel Duchamp, Sade's philosophy ("His model is not a volcano, although he liked volcanoes very much, but cold lava"). Paz even notes the first feminist, Penthesilea, legendary queen of the Amazons, who ruled from "a throne of vertigo and tides...
...treated more harshly. "At one point, I was told that if I had a nightmare and cried out once more in my sleep they would shoot me." The behavior of his captors varied considerably. "The range went from the saintly to something out of the Marquis de Sade. Some I would invite into my own home. Others I would like to take back of the woodshed and only one of us would return." There was the doctor who saved his life when he went into convulsions after bouts with malaria and beriberi. There was also the guard who scattered peanuts...
...social pathologies. In spite of (or, in a real sense, because of) its great artistic merit, it would have been better had this film never been shown to general audiences. The leftist British writer, Pamela Hansford Johnson, came to a similar conclusion about the writings of the Marquis de Sade after her study of the Moors murders...
...Sade (gently): All right. I'll put the letter away...
...second thought, maybe those who aren't Vic and Sade fans should stay away. The rest of us, though, may soon find ourselves referring to our offspring as "dust mop" and "down-spout," or walking through the front door at home with a soft "Hi de hi, ho de ho." · Jack Keil