Status Updates From Sadeian Woman by Carter, An...

"...like a version of the Terrible Mother, the Hindu goddess, Kali, who stands for both birth and death, and not only destruction but Nature’s cruel indifference to suffering...like Tantric devotees of Kali, engage in sexual rituals in a graveyard, at Durand’s instigation. Kali herself dances upon severed heads, juggles with limbs, wears necklaces of skulls and copulates with corpses."

Tired of Western author fr

Getting a little bored after all this talk of Juliette committing various kinds of evil. I guess I never will sympathise, much less understand, with a villain who is villainous for the sake of villainy.

I am not kidding btw, this is a whole paragraph (read at your own risk)



"...libertines themselves, it is a different matter. They, too, gladly eat shit but they control its production. An elaborate bureaucracy is established to govern the production and distribution of faecal matter in The Hundred and Twenty Days at Sodom. The victims are placed on special diets, to ensure the quality and flavour of the turds..."

Did Carter really find it that necessary to prove her point to expound for 5 whole lines how important eating shit (literally) is in Sade's fiction???

Only a chapter in and there's already so much to unpack

Actually reading more non-fic like I promised to in my 2026 reading goals