VENUS IN FURS
By LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH
"But the Almighty Lord hath struck him, and hath delivered him into the hands of a woman."
--- The Vulgate, Judith,xvi. 7.
My company was charming.
Opposite me by the massive Renaissance fireplace sat Venus; she was not a casual woman of the half-world, who under this pseudonym wages war against the enemy sex, like Mademoiselle Cleopatra, but the real, true goddess of love.
- P10