Donna Of Tartt. The secret history (№ 402695)

It’s not easy for us to admit it, but it’s the thought of losing control that most attracts people who are used to constantly controlling themselves, people like ourselves. All truly civilized peoples became such, purposefully suppressing the primitive, animal nature in themselves. Think about it, are we, gathered in this room, so different from the ancient Greeks or Romans? With their obsession with duty, piety, devotion, self-sacrifice? All the things that make our contemporaries shiver?