May 26, 2023
I've been using my down time at work to do a lot of reading lately, and a big part of that has been making my way through the works that VnC references, just for the fun of it.
I was going to start The Song of Roland a few days ago, but when I first looked at it, I just did not have the patience to deal with the sheer ~righteousness~ and pomp of a story about a bunch of eleventh century catholic knights.
HOWEVER, after making my way through a solid 80 pages of de Sade, I have to admit, those righteous catholic knights ended up looking pretty god damn appealing.
#had to switch from de sade to Roland solely for the sake of a fucking palette cleanser. bc. JEEZ#protip for anyone who thinks it's a good idea to read a de Sade novel between customers at their place of business:#don't!#or at the very least don't read fucking 120 days lmao#it's like.#I knew going in I was gonna have to bail out of reading it at work at some point once shit went full de Sade#but I figured (falsely) I could get through the introduction before that point#I also knew about and was braced for there being a lot of horrific assault#But I still wasn't expecting it to *start* with such an immediately insane level of brutality#and even more than that. I was not prepared for the sheer amount of literal FILTH and uncleanliness#anyway. if you ever want to read an 18th century frenchman describe several different people's permanently gaping unwashed asses#and the mass abduction and assault of dozens and dozens of teens and children#all within the first 60 pages of a novel#read de Sade#in other news the song of roland is pretty entertaining#about andie