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Camille Paglia

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first: 2016-04-25
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“And it's not men, it's not the patriarchy. And it's ultimately not a feminist issue. It has something to do with this very mechanical system, modern technological professional world that has emerged to replace the agrarian period when there were multi-generations living with each other and women had a natural sense of solidarity being all together. There was the world of women and the world of men once. They didn't have much to do with each other once. All the problems have happened since we started to have to do with each other.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, capitalism made emancipation possible. So I think that the problem right now is that young women have been taught somehow to identify their own sense of personal unhappiness with men. Men are responsible for my unhappiness when in fact part of the issue is that we have lived as a species for like tens of thousands of years where mating occurred early, was early, where you left your parents' house and had your own household and your own children. And I mean, Juliet in Romeo and Julia is 13 going on 14. Already she's ready for marriage. So in this, we have a very long, a naturally long period here before women can attain some sense of who they are as women. So I think that is...”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh no. I'm an equal opportunity feminist, by which I believe that all obstacles, the women's advance and the political and professional realms should be removed. But I'm also saying is that there are huge areas of human life that are not political. They have to do with our private spiritual natures. And that is a place where legislation will always be helpless and indeed intrusive. So I think that feminism has made enormous gains. In terms of, you know, there was a time that women were totally dependent on father, on husbands, on brother for their survival. Now, women can be self-supporting, can live totally on their own. And it's part of this whole Western world powered by capitalism that our university curricula are now habitually always in demeaning.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, unfortunately, the sense of language in general, or just respect for language or interest in language is degenerating. I mean, I'm someone who used to, I used to write down, you may always write down any word I don't know when I'm reading. I would make lists and I would like study the dictionary and etymologies. And now young people have no concern for language per se, the way they communicate with each other in the email format now in text is”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so on. And the good father is the one who says, okay, yes, I will do. Okay, give me the plan, give me the sheet. But to ask men to do more seems to me to ask them to do something. They are not biologically prepared to do.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They don't know what men, and men don't know what to do. Men are clumsy and they have the big hands and so on. And what I have seen from my album observation is that women, and this is because I have a child who I'm adoptive from my former partner, and so on. What I've seen is the world of the moms. I have seen the world of the moms from the inside. And what I see is that the minute there are children, the children are born, the woman, it's the woman who biologically, I believe, has the master strategist mind, okay? She is the Generalissimo of the household. The man, her husband, who was once her equal, shrinks down to merely one counter. Okay? All right. Becomes one. It is she who issues the master plan for the week. He is hopeless, okay? She has the multiple levels. She assigns, she knows what, and she's the one who makes a sketch.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And yes, here is the baby. Okay, here to my husband, you are equally fit to be able to nurture this month old, three-month-old child. Now, as a child gets a little older and turns into a real human being with a personality and so on, it's not so dependent, that is when men can do more. But I still believe personally from my observation of human life that there is something going on. The child, an infant doesn't want the father. Hello, okay. The infant wants the mother. He wants the nice cuchy. The smell is the mother, okay? Who is this person coming closer? That is, go away. It was like, I mean, Freud talked about that. It's like this distraction comes in, the father. Get out. Remember, that's why Freud said, every child wants to kill the father and marry the mother. I said, right.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They have one answer. Men must do more. That's their answer. Men must do more. Susan Falludi has never had a child, so he has absolutely no idea. What I feel is that there is a tie, there is a, what can I say, ineffable, indefinable, biological tie between a child and the mother in whose body the child has developed into a full being, and that there are all kinds of impulses and instincts that women may have of protectiveness toward their biologically born children. I think that to politicize the thing and to assume that a woman bearing a child is like an automaton.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Job. This is the lie that's being told. Women are not being doing the same job as a man, are not being paid 75 cents for something that the man is being paid a dollar. What it is is overall the averages of women of their own volition for whatever reasons are taking jobs that have more flexibility as opposed to the round-the-clock seven days a week night thing that may be, for example, women tend to shy away from commission sales sales jobs where they're on the road a lot. And that's where a lot of men have very high earnings. Women have are making choices. They would prefer to be closer to their children. So yes, there are these disparities are ultimately based in biological differences. So now, you know, Susan Faludi and these other feminists of the Steinem kind of credo.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, first of all, I think my own party, the Democratic Party, is using this rubric of equal pay for women as if this has not been a matter of law ever since the presidency of JFK, for heaven's sakes. There may be cases of outrageous disparity in pay for doing the same work. Now and then they'll find something like in a hospital, a woman doctor, a veteran doctor was not being paid at the same level. But it's rare when these actual cases do surface. All this propaganda being pumped out about this issue, when in fact women are earning 72 cents or 75 cents on the dollar, it's not that for the same.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of what he achieved, and also how little has been acknowledged his deep knowledge of the visual arts and how he had been influenced by that. I found all kinds of little details that showed his deep knowledge, his erudition about that. It appears to be that he did tell the VNA to invite. That time people don't know what you're talking about is where it was like earlier in the 1990s and a message came to my publisher to the public saying, and it was conveyed to me by the publicist of my publisher, saying David Bowie wants your phone number. And I burst out laughing. I said, that's ridiculous. I said, oh boy, that's just some fan trying to give. And they said, no, David Bowie.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not sure. Oh, David Bowie. David Bowie. Okay. All right. Now Bowie, you know, I wrote this essay called Theater or Gender. David Bowie at the Climax of the Sexual Revolution. I wrote it for the Victorian Albert exhibition catalog for the costume show that they did. And it's now still touring the world. And I consider it one of my most important pieces. But it's in the catalog. I want to get into my next essay collection. But with Bowie, I mean, see, Bowie is different than Denov. I mean, Bowie is truly a creative artist. I mean, whereas Deneuve and Taylor are performers in other people's fictions, but Bowie was truly a master creator of a level that just is staggering. When I did the research for that essay, I just was, I knocked out all over again at the Norman.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Inundated with when I was in high school and college and what do these kids have today, Taylor, Swift, oh my God, okay, she is such a fake. She poses and things that she imagines are sexy and sultry and it's like so fake, awful, awful, awful, okay? But at least Rihanna, who's like, you know, on dope most of the time, and that's why she looks so sultry. Rihanna's Instagrams are to me like a work of art. The only thing I'm following right now, I have to say that's equal in importance, is Rihanna floating from one nightclub to another, and yet some other fashionable thing. Back to your question. Did I answer? I don't know if I answered the question.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sent a real Cassandra nove that I was so intent on. It was this magical creation that is a result of her talent, but also of the director's own magical skills and so on. Oh yes, Elizabeth Taylor, I get $599 pictures, yes. People often say what's odd about that is not the number, but I had counted them. But yes, oh, she represented to me everything, the pure sexuality that had been repressed during the Doris Day 1950s and early 60s. Butterfield Day still remains for me a great pagan exhibition. Here is Elizabeth Taylor as a high class call girl. Oh my God. And I had Jean Moreau and Monica Viti and in Nukemay. And there's so many, Melita Mercury, there were so many phenomenal images that I was in.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think I personally have never had this great desire necessarily to meet the figures that I most admire in the arts because I understand that what they represent on screen is something that it's an artificial construction. It's not the reality that I've been working in art schools also my entire career. So I know I have dancers in my class, I have actors in my class, and I completely understand the difference between the fallible real self, the mundane real self, and the artistic self suddenly emerges within what I call the Teminos, which is the sacred precinct that I regard as arch. And therefore, when I encountered Catherine Dunov by accident that day, I was at the peak of my obsession with her, it really almost ruined my interest in her, okay? Because it's like, oh my God, it's like, you know, I did.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, but the problem is right now that younger generation has risen up and it's now Standing has returned. She's like a bad penny. She's back again. So, I mean, I feel like I'm back to square one. Next question.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But while feminism is like, it's going through phases. I mean, I call myself a feminist, absolutely. I simply belong to a dissident wing of feminism. And I think that the error made by all these people was not to understand that my wing of feminism had been suppressed and silenced at that point for 25 years. And eventually we won in the 90s. The pro-sex wing of feminism, thanks to Madonna, who wasn't a feminist, but because of Madonna's foregrounding of sexual themes and so on, it allowed us to break through the overcontrol by the Steinem Politburo.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it was at Smith. I mean, it's really shocking. Yeah, when I arrived at Smith, they had papered the walkway, in fact. As people walked in with like all these hostile and uncomprehending things, people had no idea what my real ideas were. The whole PC thing was escalating out of control at that point. But it's really shocking. I mean, here's a person, a woman, a middle-aged woman at that point. I mean, my 40s, who had spent 20 years writing a book that, you know, they had been rejected and finally was published by Yale Press, a book on the whole history of the Western civilization. And this is the treatment that I got at Smith College from one of this is one of the bastions of the Ivy League, but of the Seven Sisters, one of the most noble names in the history of modern women's education. I mean, isn't that it shows you, okay, how ideology really is distorting?”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Modernism, okay magnificent structure now abandoned wholesale except when students have protested like a smith my sister is a graduate of Smith and was part of the protest that got the survey restored but people no longer graduate students in a hard history and art historians no longer have the ability to teach the big picture because all narratives are regarded as fictional now imperialistic fictions okay so the entire story of art is not possible and therefore people know nothing”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To the present, okay? And so for each of those, so there you real, oh my God, could you see it? Could you see the fall in the quality of scholarship in our time from the 1980s on, I would move from these incredibly erudite and wonderful sentences and just beautiful stylists about art, late 19th century, moving into the 20th century, still solid into about the 60s. And then the 70s is kind of holding here, and then all of a sudden comes the 80s, 90s, 20s, all these people are pygmies, pygmies, the people at the elite schools. And you know, oh, let me say, there's no, you know, the big art survey courses are being dismantled. Hello. Okay. It used to be you'd have a two-semester course. It would begin with KVAR and then move in two semesters down to”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I just ransacked that building. Oh my God. And that's the thing, is that I've learned more from old commentators, Sir James George Fraser, the Golden Bow, which was considered completely gone, but had a huge impact on the wasteland and other big works of modernism. But I've learned a great deal from the comteers of the past, the historians of the past. Now, when I did, where is glittering images the actual nullity of current scholarship became very exposed to me? Of course, I already knew about it, but I really saw, I really got objective proof of it. I've got each artwork that I chose, or there's a 29 chapters in it. Each artwork that I chose, I did a full research of what had been said about that particular artwork, okay? And so I began chronologically, I would work if it was like an older work from the late 19th century, moving through the decades.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Boring, okay? And wherever you are, it's exhausting, it's like frustrating, I don't know why, it's like, I don't know, the plane has been cancelled and whatever. No, after you get over your fury, okay, you realize, okay, what opportunity is there here to absorb something more from this experience, from observing other people or whatever it is? And I think there's really no experience that you can have, that if there's not something in there that eventually you can't use as part of your developing system. So someone who, oh, another thing I have to say, anyone interested in ideas, do not read any of the current books that are considered being like Pierre Berdieu and all that stuff. Oh my God. Okay, I believe in the library. The library is my shrine. Okay, it was my shrine when I was researching Emilia Earhart. When I got to Yale, Sterling Library was my shrine.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And popular culture was very, in fact, there's absolutely no doubt that a Yale graduate school that I lost a great, huge credibility with the professors because of my endorsement of not only film, but Hollywood. When Hollywood, Hollywood was considered crass entertainment and so on. And now the media studies came in very strongly after that, although highly theoretical, not the way I teach media studies. But I also believe in following your own instinct intuition. There's something meaningful here. You don't know what it is, but you just keep it kind of on the back burner. So that's basically how I work is this the constant observation. There's nothing. And also I try to tell my students, I mean, they never get the message really, okay? But what I try to say to them is that nothing is boring. Nothing is boring. If you're bored, you”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Get a job, have a job. That's the real job. Every time you have frustrations with the real job, you say, this is good, okay? This is good because this is reality. This is the reality as everybody lives it. And this thing of like withdrawing from the world to be a writer, I think, is a terrible mistake. Also, number one thing is constantly observing. I mean, my whole life, I'm constantly jotting things down constantly. Just jot, jot, jot. I'll have an idea. I'm cooking, and I'll have an idea. Okay, so I have a lot of pieces of paper with tomato sauce, you know, on them or whatever. And I transfer these to cards or I transfer them to notes, et cetera. So I'm just constantly open, and everything's on all the time, you know, like what on. And I never say this is important, this is not important. And that's why I got into popular culture at a time when...”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Stain like that kind of unpretentious and really engaging with actual materials and so on. But Susan Suntag, basically her life became going from lecture to lecture being hailed as the great one and being so detached from ordinary life. Whereas when you're a teacher,”
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“You try to quote her on anything. What can you quote her on? There's nothing you can quote her. I mean, the one thing you can quote her on is the thing that she would quote a sentence from Susan Santeg, a great sentence. You can't. The only sentence was the one she regretted. The white race is the cancer of history. That's the one she retracted finally. When she got cancer, she realized how horrible that was. She thought that was so horrible. Now she realized, and now I realize I shouldn't have said that, okay, and so on. That's the only thing that you can quote her on. She's not quotable because there's all this sleight of hand that she's doing. She's taking material that she embars from others or places that she's been personally at a time when downtown New York was very exciting. So it basically was a kind of transcription of her everyday life. I think the best thing she did probably was for me, like she wrote a very witty thing, the imagination of disaster. I like that essay a lot, which is all about the horror films of the 1950s. And I thought, if you only did...”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They want success and they want material advantages and so on and they don't it's really being a writer is just scut work okay and being a teacher and see and that's what Susan Santeg also did wrong okay Susan Santag began in graduate school and then oh it's so boring and so on she did a little teaching and then and then she went off and became a luminary okay and so she was a big luminary big giant dirigible luminary her whole life like floating above the continent see Susan Santeg the dirigible there she is and so all right so nothing that she said had made any sense actually over time okay eventually okay and she loved to she loved to hold court at parties a centorious and so people who remember her so brilliantly she was so brilliant why I saw her at this dinner party everyone was in awe okay well people who tried to go to dinner parties to impress other people it is such BS okay and so Susan Santeg over time her work got less and less meaningful even though people worship at the shrine”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Life is completely mundane. I'm a school mom. Okay, that's all I am, okay? And I had the wisdom, hello, having been raised Catholic, that once I became known, finally became known at age 43, I didn't change one thing about my life, not one thing. I didn't move to New York. I didn't go chasing around. I didn't get it, like, you know, a speakers bureau, all that stuff. I tried to keep apps like, I guess it's all the, my cousin was a nun, okay? And I have all these bishops and priests and sextons and so on in their family and so on. And I just try to keep to reality because I know that the basis of my work is the closeness with which I live to ordinary life. I hate the elites. I hate parties. I don't have book parties or anything like that and so on. And people, I think that people...”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it's like, yeah, I mean, it's not, yeah, I mean, there are problems with it. I mean, so much was toxic going on on the set between Hitchcock and Tipihedron at that point, you know, and so on. But, I mean, there are wonderful things in Marney.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Philadelphia, who was the great sociologist originally Canadian, who wrote the presentation of self in everyday life. And so all the things that were influenced on me influenced Foucault. And so you have all these people thinking Foucault was some sort of innovative figure in the history of modern sociology or intellect. And he wasn't. It is a disease in these people. Everywhere, every single university in the United States, every single gender studies department, they're impregnated with Foucault. And that's why we have graduates who know nothing.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To go, hmm, okay, maybe there was something in with her. So I'm hoping, I'm just trying to inspire graduate students to rebel against this horrible, you know, the fascism that forces theory onto them before they expose themselves into everything that's wonderful and imaginative in the history of literature and art. And so I believe that paying minute attention to the actual work itself is the mission of criticism. And I am hopelessly old-fashioned because that's not what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to, you mentioned Foucault, you know, 59 times in one paragraph, etc. Winbag that guys, I'm telling you. Foucault is nothing. He's nothing. Okay. Nothing. And the reason why I know he's nothing is because he was influenced by, he pretends to be such a mastermind, but in fact, he's just a collection of influences. And one of the biggest influences on him was Irving Goffman.”
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“And Lena Dunham, okay? You want to see the decline that we're in the middle of right now. There it is. Oh, can I say a word about this? Sure. Okay. All right. All right. So I wrote this. The British Film Institute asked me to write on a film. And I said, how about the birds? And I did. Okay. So I wrote this book, okay? And it was universally, like, panned by the film journals, which said about it. This book does nothing. This book does nothing, by which they meant that I didn't, it wasn't post-structuralist, it wasn't postmodernist, there wasn't a lot of theory I wasn't citing the male gaze, et cetera, et cetera, right? All this book does is go through the film, The Burns, okay, from beginning to end, scene by scene, by scene, and pays attention to the film. Itself, okay, and slowly it's made its way. So now here it is, it was 1998 when that came out, and I'm starting to get, it started to happen now, like the Rutledge, you know, Rutledge is like a publisher that's nothing but this theory stuff.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, Tippi Hedron invited me to lunch in Rodero Drive after that. I don't know, giving some speech on Shakespeare, as in Los Angeles, a public library. And so she invited to thank me for writing this. And I imagine she had a stack of 12 of these books, and I signed them. She was the most elegant and wonderful, warm woman. And I didn't have time, much time, but she invited me to go to the ranch and see all the animals and the lions. She collected and so on. But Suzanne Plachette, I think, was absolutely underutilized by Hollywood. What an intelligent, just knife-sharp character she was. In fact, I recently in one of my salon combs compared her to Lena Dunham. Lena Dunhunam is a product of exactly the same world affluent art entertainment world in Manhattan. I said, look what's happened to culture. You want to see the difference between Suzanne Plachette, sophisticated.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, but yes, but it was odd. Yes, I pursued her into the glove department and forced her to sang my ticket envelope for the Fillmore East, where I was seeing the Jefferson Airplane to have a conversation with Catherine Denove, shall we say, a civilized conversation.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My unrealized dream to meet Catherine Deneuve, but I met her once, I ran into her, smack ran into her once On Fifth Avenue in front of Sachs. I know this is kind of bizarre”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm like Huismann's astet in Desant. I am not a great fan of traveling. I just feel it's become too onerous. No, I'm a traveler.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hm, interesting. I'm trying to think, well, I mean, my early work, I worked on for so long that it was like I had plenty of time for, you know, sort of second thoughts and third thoughts and hundredth thoughts. So no, I can't think of anything offhand. Can I get back to you about that? Sure.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh well. Well, to me, archaeology is one of my master tropes. What can I say? And the bust of Nefertiti discovered in 1912, it's amazing, barely, we've known it for like a century. It's extraordinary, isn't it? How it's become such a symbol of Arsh. And then, oh, and what you'd say that the push of countries like Greece and Egypt to recover their masterpieces from where they were taken and scattered around the world. I mean, I think with what's been happening with ISIS and the demolition of Palmyra and all kinds of things that have happened, my attitude now is keep Nefertidi in Berlin, please. Don't send Quebec to Cairo.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, we shouldn't tell them that the fairy queen is quite forgotten now, but it has enormous impact, as Spencer's fairy queen, on Shakespeare and on the romantic poets and so on and so forth. And the fairy queen had been taught in this very moralistic way. But in my chapter, I showed that it was entirely a work of pornography, okay, equal to the Marquis de Sade. And how interesting that you would be drawn to that.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Done. For whatever reason, they couldn't have the, I don't know what, they didn't have the resilience to continue against obstacles. When their work would get rejected, they would become discouraged and would stop. And rejection simply infuriates me and so on. I say, well, I'll have my revenge on you in the afterlife. I'll be around and you'll be dead. It's an Italian thing. What can I say? This is sexual.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is there anyone left writing serious books? I mean, I'm trying to think who has written a serious book that I'm interested in right now. There's no one I would say, oh, so-and-so's book is coming. What? They're dead. The people who I admire are long dead. And unfortunately, it's a terrible destruction. I mean, my work looks very strange and idiosyncratic as I'm alone. I'm alone. The people who should have been writing interesting quirky books as I do are dead or their brains were destroyed in LSD. It's one or the other. Because I knew so many to me brilliant minds in graduate school and then early in my teaching career at Bennington College, a really brilliant minds. And I had great hopes for them and for what they would do. And then they couldn't get anything.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wait, wait, you mentioned LSD. Can I say something else about that? Sure, LSD, please. Okay. Now, LSD, okay, you know, I never took it. Thank God, what is this untested thing? I thought, you know, like a little wine and beer, you know, all these things have thousands of years behind them, right? I said, you know, LSD, so I'm so glad I never took it. Everyone around me was taking illness.”
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“Yes. I've been in a rut on Lambnd. It's a horrible rut. It's a 40-year runt. No, it's a 40. Every time I go to an Indian restaurant, I said, now I'm going to try something new, but no, I must go back to the Lambindloo. All I know is I do, it's like an ecstasy for me, the Lambind Lu”
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“Would do if they had $2 million and who they would hire, etc. It's fantastic. My writer's voice is actually very, you know, rather than these novelists with their riche, you know, lingo and so on, my actual writing voice is very influenced by the way English is spoken today by people and often men on radio. So you get this like high impact kind of a sound.”
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“Yeah, well, it's a lifestyle. Of observation, you know, and I feel that the basis of my work is not only the care I take with writing, with my quality control of my prose, but also by observation, it's like 24-7. I'm always observing, and I don't just sit in a university. I never go to conferences. That is a terrible mistake. A conference is just like overlaying the same kind of insular ideology, you know, on top of it. I am always listening to conversations at the shopping mall. I adore radio. The radio is fantastic. Any show on radio, the talk shows, of political talk shows, but also the sports shows, okay? That is the sports shows are the only place that you can hear on radio, actual working class voices calling in for you, what happened on the game on Monday.”
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“Newsweek magazine, okay, 1963, I wrote in a letter to the editor that was like their number one letter. I'm 16 years old at that point. And what was it? Oh, I know they put a picture of Amelia Earhart there. And it was Valentina Treshkova had become the first woman in space. The Soviet Union had sent her up. And I wrote a protest letter into Newsweek. And I said that Valentina Tereshkova has become the cosmonaut, has become the first woman on the anniversary that Amelia Earhart flew the ocean, whatever it was with some big anniversary. I said, I say, it obviously Amelia Earhart's lifelong fight for equal opportunity for American women remains to be won. That's 1963. Gloria Steinem can lick dirt. When I was doing that, Gloria Steinem was running around New York in a plastic skirt, I'm telling you.”
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“Then I had my first job at Bennington College in 1972, and people said, oh, this is new women's studies department, one of the first efforts at State University of New York at Albany. Okay, you know, you'll be wondering, okay, so they're feminists. I'm feminist. Okay, all right. So we had like a dinner. We're going to go to a lecture and so on. And we didn't get through to dessert. Let me tell you over that dinner. Because we had this screaming argument about hormones. They deny that hormones have the slightest impact on human life. They said hormones don't even exist. They told me I had been brainwashed by male scientists. And these are women who are in the English department. I had a wonderful education they had in biology. At any rate, Amelia Earhart, okay? Yes, of course. And never, okay, never was like this with men because this is the point. Okay, so Amelia Earhart has a, in fact, in fact, my next book, my next essay collection, I'm going to reproduce the page from”
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“Oh, yes. Oh my God, okay. Well, Amelia Earhart, I stumbled on. There was like an article in 1961 in the Syracuse Herald Journal about, you know, there's always some article about Mili Earharty. Someone finds a fragment or something and I became very”
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“And there was still defense, and there wasn't all this throwing, fleeing the ball down the field. And people catching and like ballerinas. Please, that's not football. Football is wham like that. Bring back the football. And the TV won't show the great defensive plays, you know, and so on. The whole art of defense and the great offensive defense and lines and that kind of tussle. It's like that's kind of gone. So I'm lucky I feel lucky that I saw football on TV at its high point.”
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“Well, Yale press didn't want to publish proposals last chapters. No, so the Yale Press ended with the end of the 19th century with Emily Dickinson. It was already a 700-page book. And so, yes, so I put in there the next book was coming. But then what happened, of course, is that throughout the 90s, since the last 25 years, I've been essentially writing in articles everything that I would have written in that same. So all my writing on popular culture, I have continued to do like on football. I had a chapter baseball versus football, and football is the ultimate pagan sport, et cetera. Well, so I wrote Wall Street Journal from my football feminism, I have a whole kinds of philosophy of that, et cetera, et cetera. And now football is getting more and more boring. It's got more and more technocratic. So it's not in a period right now that I would celebrate. But I was celebrating that tremendous period when there were still hard hits.”
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