I just wanted to say that artists have to, indeed, make terrible sacrifices to produce any kind of art piece!
There is perhaps one person who knows what I am now working on, aside from writing that is, and I don't want to say what it will be just yet (in case I will say 'a, screw it all' and quit the project) but it got me to make so many sacrifices!
The things I have seen... they cannot be unseen... ever! And how much of that I have seen... it's enormous!
Also, on a side note, I have read, more like leafed through, "The 120 Days of Sodomy or School of Libertinism". I will omit the Marquis' talents (and he had talent, he could write) and topic choices, but the book has had me greatly inspired... to find myself a different book to read. The book is - of course - unfinished as the Marquis never managed to work on it after he was released from Bastille and the manuscript was lost for a long time, but to be honest the work he considered his regretfully lost Magnum Opus is greatly overrated. Perhaps it could be considered seditious back in XVIIIth century (if it was published back then) and shocking and controversial in the early XXth century (when it was finally published) but today it is simply boring (especially if you saw Human Centipede - a film that, I feel, Marquis de Sade would probably enjoy).
So generally, if you're curious what the Marquis wrote in his book, then you may rad it. Don't expect too much fireworks though, aside from few gross parts you have probably saw more sex and depravities in internet porn and TV news, and more blood in the Saw (another movie the Marquis would appreciate, I imagine).
And if you just want a picture of rotten aristocracy in XVIIIth century Europe that was written originally in France, I'd say you should read Dangerous Liaisons (Les Liaisons Dangereuses).
There is perhaps one person who knows what I am now working on, aside from writing that is, and I don't want to say what it will be just yet (in case I will say 'a, screw it all' and quit the project) but it got me to make so many sacrifices!
The things I have seen... they cannot be unseen... ever! And how much of that I have seen... it's enormous!
Also, on a side note, I have read, more like leafed through, "The 120 Days of Sodomy or School of Libertinism". I will omit the Marquis' talents (and he had talent, he could write) and topic choices, but the book has had me greatly inspired... to find myself a different book to read. The book is - of course - unfinished as the Marquis never managed to work on it after he was released from Bastille and the manuscript was lost for a long time, but to be honest the work he considered his regretfully lost Magnum Opus is greatly overrated. Perhaps it could be considered seditious back in XVIIIth century (if it was published back then) and shocking and controversial in the early XXth century (when it was finally published) but today it is simply boring (especially if you saw Human Centipede - a film that, I feel, Marquis de Sade would probably enjoy).
So generally, if you're curious what the Marquis wrote in his book, then you may rad it. Don't expect too much fireworks though, aside from few gross parts you have probably saw more sex and depravities in internet porn and TV news, and more blood in the Saw (another movie the Marquis would appreciate, I imagine).
And if you just want a picture of rotten aristocracy in XVIIIth century Europe that was written originally in France, I'd say you should read Dangerous Liaisons (Les Liaisons Dangereuses).
Cheers!
