[lbo-talk] the libertine and the ascetic

[John Adams]

On Jan 11, 2007, at 9:54 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> Besides, a libertine is the true lover of an ascetic, and in the heart
> of a libertine is a devotion to chastity, or so suggests French
> literature, e.g. Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses

It's been some time since I read Laclos, but my memories on it are (I 
think) pretty sharp, and this seems like an odd reading of this book. 
Would you care to expand on it?

	John A