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  "title": "From Marquis de Sade to Grand Theft Auto, a Brief History of Depravity",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/from-marquis-de-sade-to-grand-theft-auto-a-brief-history-of-depravity",
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  "published": "2026-08-12T09:10:26.000Z",
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  "summary": "The prisoner’s hand ached. He sat hunched over his desk in a cold tower of the Bastille jail in Paris, writing in tiny letters on a very long roll of paper—nearly 40 feet in total, made from smaller scraps he",
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