                                NOTES

       Under no circumstances deviate from this plan, everything has
been worked out, the entirety several times re-examined with the
greatest care and thoroughness.
       Detail the departure. And throughout the whole, introduce a
quantity of moral dissertation and diatribe, above all at the suppers.
       When you produce the final version, keep a notebook; in it you
will place the names of all the principal characters and the names of
all those who play important roles, such as they who have several
passions and who will appear several times in the romance, as, for
example, the hell libertine; leave a wide margin beside their names
and, as you recopy, fill it with everything you come across that has
any bearing upon them; this note is very essential, it is the sole way
to keep your work clear of obscurities and to avoid repetitions.
       Edulcorate Part The First, it is much too strong; things
develop too rapidly and too far in it, it cannot possibly be too soft,
mild, feeble, subdued. Above all, never have the four friends do
anything until it has first been recounted. You have not been
sufficiently scrupulous in that connection.
       In Part The First, say that the man who mouth-fucks the little
girl prostituted by her father is the same man, of whom she has
already spoken, who fucks with a dirty prick.
       Do not forget to place somewhere in December the scene of the
little girls serving supper, squirting liqueurs from their asses into
Messieurs' glasses; you announced such a scene but failed to include
it in the plan.


                        SUPPLEMENTARY TORTURES

       -By means of a hollow tube, a mouse is introduced into her
cunt, the tube is withdrawn, the cunt sewn up, and the animal, unable
to get out, devours her entrails.
       -She is made to swallow a snake which in similar wise feeds
upon her entrails.


                               ADDENDA

       In general, describe Curval and the Duc as two hot-blooded and
imperious scoundrels, 'tis thus you conceived them in the plan and in
Part The First, and figure the Bishop as a cool, reasoning and
tough-minded villain. As for Durcet, he must be mischievous, a teaser,
false, traitorous, perfidious. In accordance with which, have them do
everything that conforms with such characters.
       Carefully recapitulate all the names and the qualities of all
the personages your storytellers mention; this to avoid repetition.
       Upon one page in your notebook of characters draw the plan of
the chteau, room by room, and in the blank space next to this page,
itemize all the things done in each room.

       This entire great roll was begun the 22nd of October, 1785, and
finished in thirty-seven days.
