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Rebellion can be observed here in its pure state and its original complexities

REBELLION AND ART

Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. "No artist tolerates reality" says Nietzsche.

Pisarev, the greatest theoretician of Russian nihilism, declares that the greatest fanatics are children and adolescents.

HISTORICAL REBELLION

Freedom that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm*, is the motivating principle of all revolutions. Without it, justice seems inconceivable to the rebel's mind.

*Philotée O'Neddy

...Blake observes "when he [Milton] spoke of demons and of hell, is that he was a real poet and on the side of the demons, without knowing it"

The Dundies Rebellion

Romanticism, Lucifer-like in its rebellion, is really useful for adventures of the imagination

the struggle between Satan and death in Paradise Lost, the favorite poem of the Romantics, symbolizes this drama...death (with,...sin) is the child of Satan

Sade was executed in effigy; he, too, only killed in his imagination. Prometheus ends in Onam. Sade is still a prisoner when he dies, but this time in a lunatic asylum...

Sade's republic is not founded on liberty but on libertinism

In Sade's fortress republic, there are only machines and mechanics

ABSOLUTE NEGATION

Historically speaking the first coherent offensive is that of Sade

his negation is also, of course, the most extreme

the only logic known to Sade was the logic of his feelings

Nietzsche believed God is dead in the souls of his contemporaries