From: LouisFors@aol.com
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Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 10:45:18 EDT
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Subject: Who is Paglia?
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Kay wrote:

> Ok, feeling really foolish, but just Who is this Paglia?

Nobody has responded to this, so I'll take it seriously, risking feeling
really foolish.  Take the reverse mirror image of the following:  Camille
Paglia is a soft spoken, retiring writer who touches occasionally on sex.  She
writes with such an ambivalent style that it is seldom possible to know what
she really believes.  She scrupulously avoids upsetting or offending her
readers.  In fact, most readers regard her as wimpy.  She is always careful to
state the limitations of her knowledge.   

In ED context, she's done a book titled Sexual Personae:  Art and Decadence
from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson.  She writes an occasional column (perhaps
it's once a week) for the online magazine Salon (www.salonmagazine.com).  A
Web search will probably turn up a hundred sites.

Who is Paglia? Could be as much fun as deciding the cast for the ED movie.
Or, who should play Paglia in a film?  Should it be directed by Mel Brooks or
Stanley Kubrick or Penny Marshall?  Or what would be the Jeopardy response
that would lead to the question "Who is Camille Paglia?"

Louis Forsdale