The Divine Reggie Kray... The point of such comparisons is that they are vicious and entirely just. The hero-worship of gangsters and thugs is an attestable cultural phenomenon, and de Sade has benefitted from it enormously. One doesn't have to think him irredeemably diabolical in order to find this kind of sucking-up revolting. The Divine Michael Tyson... %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%