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Review: Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia

Nature and the Nation

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Egypt's Ideology of Sun and Stone

Egypt's ideology of sun and stone rested on cathonian ooze, the swamp of generation. The logic and rigor of the appollonian eye had to defeat egypt's fuzzy tribal fetishism. Egypt created the distance between ey and object, which is a hall mark of western philosophy and aesthetics. It was in the interplay between earth and sky that idealized form began. Western personality is an egyptian art object, an exclusive zone of aristocratic privilege.

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