Manque

Ilustração de uma versão holandesa de Juliette, do Marquês de Sade

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"Aí por certo reside o princípio dessa «libertinagem» que foi a última do mundo ocidental (depois dela começa a idade da sexualidade): o libertino é aquele que, obedecendo a todas as fantasias do desejo e a cada um dos seus furores, pode mas deve também aclarar o menor dos seus movimentos mediante uma representação lúcida e voluntariamente levada a cabo. Há uma ordem estrita da vida libertina: toda a representação deve animar-se logo no corpo vivo do desejo, todo o desejo deve enunciar-se na pura luz de um discurso representativo. Daí essa sucessão rígida de «cenas» (a cena, em Sade, é o desregramento ordenado pela representação) e, no interior das cenas, o equilíbrio cuidadoso entre a combinatória dos corpos e o encadeamento das razões."

(Foucault, As Palavras e as Coisas)

Passe

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"Though man is free, he must not believe that he is free to do whatever he wants. He becomes a slave when he resolves to act upon a passion that stirs him. Nisi paret imperat. («If he does not obey, he commands.») He who has the strength to take no further steps until calm prevails is a wise man. Such a being is rare." [...]

"Despite an excellent moral foundation, the inevitable fruit of the divine principles rooted in my heart, I was prey to my senses throughout my life. I took pleasure in straying, and I lived perpetually in error, with no other consolation than an awareness of doing so." [...]

"My sanguine temperament made me very sensitive to the allurements of all forms of sensual delight; I was always cheerful and eager to move on from one pleasure to the next, and ingeniously inventing new forms of it. From this derived my inclination to seek new friendships, as well as my ease in breaking them off, although it was always in full knowledge of the reasons, and never out of fickleness. Defects of temperament cannot be corrected, since temperament is beyond our powers. Character, however, is another matter. The heart and mind are its constituent elements, with temperament having very little influence on it. It thus follows that character depends on upbringing, and can be corrected and reformed."

Giacomo Casanova, Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests (Penguin Great Loves)

Noir

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"... power delineates a second dimension that's irreducible to the dimension of knowledge, even though they together produce concretely indivisible composites; but knowledge relates to forms, the Visible, the Utterable, in short to the archive, while power relates to forces, the play of forces, diagrams." (Negotiations: Gilles Deleuze, 1995)

Rouge

"... power delineates a second dimension that's irreducible to the dimension of knowledge, even though they together produce concretely indivisible composites; but knowledge relates to forms, the Visible, the Utterable, in short to the archive, while power relates to forces, the play of forces, diagrams." (Negotiations: Gilles Deleuze, 1995)

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The first form of roulette was devised in 18th century France. The roulette wheel is believed to be a fusion of the English wheel games Roly-Poly, Reiner, Ace of Hearts, and E.O., the Italian board games of Hoca and Biribi, and "Roulette" from an already existing French board game of that name.

18th Century caricature of gambling on E.O. or "even-odd" wheel

The game has been played in its current form since as early as 1796 in Paris. An early description of the roulette game in its current form is found in a French novel "La Roulette, ou le Jour" by Jaques Lablee, which describes a roulette wheel in the Palais Royal in Paris in 1796. [...] An even earlier reference to a game of this name was published in regulations for New France (Québec) in 1758, which banned the games of "dice, hoca, faro, and roulette."

(Wikipedia - http://www.wikipedia.org/)