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Review: Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia

Nature and the Nation

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Dionysus - The Great God

Aestheticism is a flight from the cithonian swamp into which nature loving wordsworth inadvertently led romanticism. Aestheticism insists on the apollonian line separating objects from each other and from nature. Disgust is apollonian fear at a melting border line. The violent principle of dionysian cult is sparagmo, which in greek means a rending, tearing, mangling. Our bodies are pagan temples, heathen holdouts against judao, christian soul or mind. Kneeling, moaning and compulsively vomiting is said to be worshipping at the porcelain god. Invitation to dionysean dance is a binding contract

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