Dark Eros

Excerpt-Thomas Moore

Exactly two hundred years ago the Marquis de Sade sat in his dirty, rat-infested cell in the Bastille, cursing his fate and yet remaining loyal to his odd way of looking at human nature. The American War of Independence was just ending, and the French Revolution was warming up. Sade’s time was an age of reason, we say, a time when the universe seemed kn…