"To be an Atlantean was to be a sybarite, but also to be blameless; to indulge in a purity crueler, more despotic and more corrosive than the most outrageous of the many-splendoured appetites of the lost tribes of the perverse; purity, for an Atlantean, was the supreme vice. And it was indulged, shamelessly."
Frenzetta by Richard Calder