Camille Paglia
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.
—Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, 1990
Posted on September 23, 2002 at 9:15 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
—Camille Paglia, Harper's
Posted on March 28, 2003 at 11:03 AM
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