NP but RIP Hugh Hefner --since no one else here might.

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I went to a lecture by her, circa the re-release of Hitchcock's The Birds and she was really quite brilliant. Despite having read three of her books prior to this I was still sitting on the fence about her intellectual weight. This blew my doubts out of the water.

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> On 8 Oct 2017, at 14:45, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> 
> Ja, ja, sehr interessant ... 
> 
> I can recommend Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson wholeheartedly.  
> 
> Paglia is an American with a genuine understanding of Nietzsche. 
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> 
>> Am 08.10.2017 um 14:25 schrieb Mark Thibodeau:
>> Quite possibly the only "feminist" writer more pedantic and less enlightening/insightful than Steinem is her bugbear, the execrable yammering cunt-rarian harpy, Hurricane Camille Paglia. What a shrill, boring mediocrity this woman is.
>> 
>> JL
>> 
>> 	Virus-free. www.avg.com
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>>> On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 4:43 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> > When we worship beauty, we are worshipping life itself. 
>>> 
>>> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/camille-paglia-hugh-hefners-legacy-trumps-masculinity-feminisms-sex-phobia-1044769
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Am 29.09.2017 um 10:28 schrieb Mark Kohut:
>>>> I woke up this morning thinking my coy allusive words about Updike's remark would probably make anyone 
>>>> think he said something about the beauty of naked women ala Playboy for young men. Stupidly wrong. 
>>>> 
>>>> The quote has heart, and is not just about naked or artistic nude beauty and is close to this: The most beautiful sight 
>>>> a young man--he means when we were still boys--sees is the naked body of a woman---he meant girl, a peer--he is in love with. 
>>>> There....
>>>> 
>>>> She was beautiful. 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Mark Kohut  <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I reveal myself surely unflatteringly and surely politically incorrectly these days 
>>>>> when I say the 'working title' of GR, before I was enlightened by all of the 
>>>>> Orientalists, Mindless Pleasures usually made me think of Playboy Magazine. 
>>>>> Even the stories and articles. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I  won't quote John Updike's wonderful insight into most inartistic young men and beauty here
>>>>> for fear of everyone, but think of nudes in art history and imagine what he said. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you for everything Hugh, including paying Dick Gregory to find the bodies of
>>>>> the murdered civil rights workers in the 60's. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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