>>57165740>The handwriting was so tiny, you needed a magnifying glass to read it. For 37 days, the Marquis de Sade toiled to put his depraved words to paper, writing only in the evenings by candlelight in his Bastille prison cell so as not to risk being caught by his jailers. When he reached the end of one piece of paper, he would paste another piece below it, continually lengthening the manuscript. By the time he had completed the first draft of his shocking novel in the autumn of 1785, it ran to 157,000 words, the scroll of paper measuring just over 12m. At the top, it bore its now infamous title, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l’École du libertinage. His story of four wealthy libertines indulging the vilest of sexual fantasies would become one of the most controversial novels ever written>Four years later, in July 1789, the Bastille found itself at the epicentre of the French Revolution when insurgents stormed the Parisian prison. Days before, Sade had been transferred to an asylum for the insane, but his precious manuscript remained hidden in his cell and he never retrieved it. “Every day I shed tears of blood,” he wrote of the loss. Twenty-five years later he died, thinking it lost for ever.That's the story of the 120 Days of Sodom, one of the most vile and repulsive novels ever written, and by a fr*nchman of all people. You're telling me some pervert from the French Revolution had enough respect for his craft to write a full-length novel of his autistic and depraved fantasies in secret, while in jail, but you can't be assed to write on your phone, on a program that can instantly copy and send your writing to any device with an internet connection? Stop making excuses Anon.
