There’s a good bit in Peter Weiss’ Marat/Sade, where the bloated obscenity Sade mocks the revolutionary idealism of the wizened maniac Marat. In any choice between two trolls you go with the one with the best lines, and Marat gets wrecked when Sade mocks the promises of the revolution. These lies they tell he sneers, about the poor having more soup, the…
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