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What of it is announced in this crossing taken from an encounter, is at most a tone of reason.

R. G. September 1962

The editors would like to thank Jacques-Alain Miller for the permission to publish

this text.

This text should have served as a preface to “Philosophy in the Bedroom”.

edition of the works of Sade for which it was destined. <ref>For which it was destined on commission. I add here, because it's droll, that they put themselves in the position of having to re-commission it from me when the success of Ecrits rendered it plausible ( . . . to the person who replaced me?)

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