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Article: Where's the Love?(Brief Article)(Review)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 31, 2000
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When Doug Wright's Quills was an Off Broadway play, I lambasted it in New York magazine. Now, in Wright's movie adaptation, it is much more elaborate and, if possible, worse yet. There is an essay by Wright in the press kit that reveals his subliteracy. He refers to Sade as "a professor emeritus of Evil," obviously not knowing the meaning of emeritus. He says that as Sade's name is the root of the term sadism, the Marquis's contribution to culture was "entomological." And he is a lousy reader, averring that in La Philosophie dans le boudoir, "an elderly dowager is forcibly infected with syphilis," even though Madame de Mistival is neither a widow nor over 32, which makes ...
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