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517 The Marquis de Sade

The History of Literature

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The Countess's Prologue

"I held his unhappy victim during these preliminaries, the two boys completely naked, toiled upon him in relays," he said. "It was then I noticed, not without astonishment, that this giant, this species of monster whose aspect alone was enough to strike terror, was how be it barely a man." He added: 'My hands meanwhile worked upon his behind, I titillated it, I polluted it in every sense'

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