Coincidance - Principia Discordia

222 COINCIDANCE
Nature is your God, then that God has, for his own obscure reasons, left the
world in their custody."
The priest protests—although he has been unjustly imprisoned for as
many years as most people's whole lives, he still will not accept that there is
no justice or reason in the world. He argues that de Sade is embittered and
cynical.
"I am the second cousin of the king," de Sade says simply. "I have had
opportunities most philosophers have never enjoyed, to study the centers of
power and the men who hold them. I exaggerate nothing. Every battle in
every war has all the atrocities I describe, and they happen because the men
who run the world are men exactly like my four archetypes."
De Sade "warms to his subject" as the writing proceeds; the 120 Days of
Sodom swells from an anatomy to an encyclopedia. He has become the
Diderot of the unconscious; he catalogs every twist and turn. Machiavelli
told only the politics of the ruling elites—de Sade has unmasked their inner
drives. He is convinced he is writing a veritable masterpiece, the first
truthful book on power ever composed. At times, he even thinks of wild
plans to smuggle the MS. out of the Bastille and have it published. His
empirical mentality has turned the project from mere satire to social science
of a sort. As he catalogs 50 diverse techniques to violently abort a pregnant
woman while causing her maximum pain in the process, he is also arguing
that, in a Godless and mechanical universe, such projects make as much
sense as anything else.
He knows—he never pretends not to know—that these monstrous
beings, the Count and Banker and Judge and Bishop, are all extensions of his
own inner being. But he still claims, and believes, that they are also mirrors
of what he has seen in the seats of power of the world.
A philosopher by necessity—prison does that for you—the Marquis was
no longer interested in perversion as diversion. He has discovered
perversion as subversion.
Please let them airplanes come on project parameters of the point of a
blade of grass.
The battle of Brandywine is not much remembered in America, but in
France they know all about it because the Marquis de Lafayette was
wounded there. In County Clare, Ireland—especially in the Burren—they
know all about it because Colonel Seamus Muadhen saw God there, sort of,
and discovered that God was Irish.
Seamus told that story many times after he returned to Ireland and lived
in the Burren. He told how he had met General Washington in a pub in
Philadelphia and leaped at the chance to fight the Brits. He never mentioned
that Washington had gotten him blind drunk before he made that patriotic
decision, and that, while sober, he had been firmly convinced he wanted no