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   Ben (thebreadmonkey@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 23:49:34 JST Ben

   You know what day it is? That's right! It is of course the Marquis de Sades birthday!

   For some reason my friends parents took me to visit his castle in Lacoste when I was a child. Which seems a bit weird now I say it. Although weirder still is that in the cafe opposite, I saw a person I recognised who saw me looking, smiled and raised his small coffee at me, and it wasn't until quite a long time afterwards I realised it was Jeroen Krabbé who had played the villain General Georgi Koskov in the 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights.

   But back to Sade - A libertine who despite owning a castle in one of the most beautiful places I've ever visited, spent most of his adult life in prison or asylums because he just absolutely refused to stop kidnapping women, having violent orgies or writing violent sex books. Initially imprisoned after forcing a prostitute at gunpoint to blaspheme whilst he masturbated using a chalice and crucifix.

   “Either kill me or take me like this, for I will not change,” wrote the imprisoned Marquis de Sade to his wife in 1783.

   So...... that's something, isn't it.