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I watched all four hours of the Reesa Teesa TikTok series “Who TF did I Marry” and it’s amazing. This is a recap but what you need to do is go to TikTok and put it on 2x and listen to all 52 parts (lol) while you work out. Or just watch it like a movie. On Marquis de Sade’s wife: One cannot decipher it through traditional concepts of wifely love, for her fixation on Sade far transcended most such attachments and makes the usual marital loyalties seem prosaic. Like an exemplary Christian whose love for a sinner must be as vast as the sinner’s transgressions, she seems to have felt that if Sade became a monster of immorality she must all the more become a paragon of devotion. This wonderful interview with Merve Emre: “You don't have to write an essay about your marriage and your divorce. You can just write a piece of criticism that's about a book like Liars, and you can betray so much about yourself and still not be exposing or betraying others.” I keep thinking about this part: So then

Yu Nishimura, Cat's Family, 2018 I watched all four hours of the Reesa Teesa TikTok series “Who TF did I Marry” and it’s amazing. This is a recap but what you need to do is go to TikTok and put it on 2x and listen to all 52 parts (lol) while you work out. Or just watch it like a movie. On Marquis de Sade’s wife: One cannot decipher it through traditional concepts of wifely love, for her fixation on Sade far transcended most such attachments and makes the usual marital loyalties seem prosaic. Like an exemplary Christian whose love for a sinner must be as vast as the sinner’s…

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