Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 3
Source: Sense and Sensibility
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 3
“Matthew Lewis [was] the genre's first punk, the Johnny Rotten of the Gothic novel.”
Matthew Lewis (writer) (1775–1818) English novelist and dramatist
Stephen King, in Matthew Lewis The Monk (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) p. vi.
Criticism
“You’ve been assigned an identity since birth.”
Source: Going Bovine (2009), p. 253
Context: You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.
Tobias Dantzig (1884–1956) American mathematician
...the children had to live, so while waiting for logic to sanctify their existence, they throve and multiplied.
Number: The Language of Science (1930)
“Distinctive signs, full signs, never seduce us.”
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher
Source: 1980s, The Ecstasy of Communication (1987), p. 59
Giannina Braschi (1953) Puerto Rican writer
On how she hopes to change poetry by bringing it towards visual art in “A Graphic Revolution Talking Poetry & Politics with Giannina Braschi” https://www.academia.edu/36916781/A_Graphic_Revolution_Talking_Poetry_and_Politics_with_Giannina_Braschi in Chiricú Journal (2018)
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
"The Mustard magazine interview" (January 2005)
Context: Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 10, p. 138