Input Junkie

I find De Sade fascinating, because his works are almost like a Rorschach test, with critics working up almost compeltely opposite interpretations equally well. My current tentative conclusion is that as much as he aspired to a philosophy, De Sade wrote largely from the subconscious, so in fact he may, at the same time, have been doing such wildly different things as (1) shoving Romanticism's nose in reasonable extrapolations it would want to deny, (2) advocating freedom, human dignity, and choice, and (3) getting his jollies and inviting others to get theirs from denigration of the human spirit and filthying what he ostensibly glorifies.