The Libertine's Nature. Lars-Henrik Schmidt

the first conversations we overhear” (Justine ou les malheurs de la vertu (subsequently referred to as JS) III p. 170; p. 601), and the wish is carried into effect by “the remembrance of a lubricious object” (JS III p. 174; p. 606). The element of interchangeability is itself grounded in the notion that an object could be any object whatsoever according to Sade’s philosophy of nature.