To the Literary Founding Fathers of Sadism
Dear Duc de Blangis, Bishop of X***, Président de Curval, and Durcet,
I'm aware of the unwritten rule that Your Kink is Not My Kink, and That's Okay. That aside, you are complete monsters. You kill innocent people, rob them of their innocence, and make others' lives a veritable hell in order to satisfy your pleasures. You find this amusing. You force your helpless slaves into every possible sexual deviancy you can think of. You have no redeemable qualities whatsoever. Debauchery, incest, murder, rape, torture; there is nothing you four won't do.
However, being the four most despicable characters ever conceived on paper, you have introduced me to the bowels of human depravity. For that, I must thank you, for it's almost a liberating experience to emerge from a book knowing you've seen among the worst of mankind. You're fascists, and show us what happens when people are allowed to do whatever they want without concern for the consequences.
Tell your author that while as a mature reader, I can appreciate (though not support) his philosophical libertine ideals, he managed to create the four most unlikeable characters capable of being produced from the human mind. I'm still trying to figure out if he's trying to tell us that you represented the hypocrisies of France (and of today, really) that landed him in the Bastille, or that you represent how we are supposed to act, without any regards to other peoples' wellbeing. I suspect the answer would have been clearer if he had had time to finish the story.
I'm aware of the unwritten rule that Your Kink is Not My Kink, and That's Okay. That aside, you are complete monsters. You kill innocent people, rob them of their innocence, and make others' lives a veritable hell in order to satisfy your pleasures. You find this amusing. You force your helpless slaves into every possible sexual deviancy you can think of. You have no redeemable qualities whatsoever. Debauchery, incest, murder, rape, torture; there is nothing you four won't do.
However, being the four most despicable characters ever conceived on paper, you have introduced me to the bowels of human depravity. For that, I must thank you, for it's almost a liberating experience to emerge from a book knowing you've seen among the worst of mankind. You're fascists, and show us what happens when people are allowed to do whatever they want without concern for the consequences.
Tell your author that while as a mature reader, I can appreciate (though not support) his philosophical libertine ideals, he managed to create the four most unlikeable characters capable of being produced from the human mind. I'm still trying to figure out if he's trying to tell us that you represented the hypocrisies of France (and of today, really) that landed him in the Bastille, or that you represent how we are supposed to act, without any regards to other peoples' wellbeing. I suspect the answer would have been clearer if he had had time to finish the story.