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Thanks, it's looking much better now...my first article. woo!

"Nonetheless, Sade invites us to live virtuously in hope of heavenly reward." But the Maquis de Sade was an Atheist! This line doesn't make sense. (anon 4 June 2005)

  • It would be more technically accurate to say that the narrator of the novel says this, but since that narrator is a persona adopted by Sade, I think what it says here is OK. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:24, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
    • Ive never read this book before, but I think it is more appropriate to insert statements with reference to the book to tell the readers of this article how Sade invite people to do so, as it seems contraditctory with what it says in the rest of the article. Tache 14:25, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article states that the book was "written in two weeks on 8 July 1787." That's a bit of a contradiction; could someone clarify/correct this? --LostLeviathan 23:36, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sade and Samuel Richardson

Certainly, being educated and literarily inclined, we must suppose Sade would have access to Richardson's work. This idea is supported by a report of Sade having referred to Samuel Richardson as 'the outstanding explorer of "the human heart, Nature's veritable labyrinth"' (Seaver and Wainhouse, in the introduction to the 1989 Arena reprint of their 1966 edition). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Brynhilde (talkcontribs) 21 August 2006.