Joel Warner
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 Apr
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And that reminded me there is a wonderful professor in London named Will McMorrin.
who did the most recent translation, 120 Days of Sodom.
It's a part of, I think, the Oxford Classics, where he wrote blogs about the experience as he was doing it.
And there was a blog post he wrote where going through 120 Days of Sodom, which is this, as we talked about, this becomes this dry account of just rich people doing the worst things imaginable to defenseless young people, right?
We're seeing the parallel where he wrote, at times, I feel like instead of me working on the text, the text is working on me, right?
So I saw this parallel, right, between the Epstein files, which no one would say that's sexy or romantic.
That is a pure accounting of men in power just having utter freedom to do whatever they want.
And that's exactly what Saad wrote.
Yeah.
Like I said, I'm spending most of my time helping run this news outlet called The Lever, focused a lot on corruption here in the States.
As I said, unfortunately, there are a lot of parallels between Saad's behavior, a lot of the people in power here in this country right now.
So I recommend people to check that out.
The book that I wrote about this, The Curse of the Marquis de Saad, I tried to make it as engaging as possible.
It's part a biography of Sod.
It's part the kind of blow by blow of the incredible journey of the scroll.
And then part is actually how it fell into the largest Ponzi scheme in French history just a few years ago.
So the book's also an accounting of this really incredible scam involving the rare book market in France.
So hopefully it's more of a page turner than, say, reading 120 Days of Sodom.
I can't say for sure, but I definitely tried to make it more engaging.
Well, thank you for asking such wonderful questions.
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