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In such a brilliantly original reserve, Camille Paglia recognizes some of the major patterns that contain endured in western culture from historic Egypt and Greece for this. Relating to Paglia, one source of continuity is paganism, which, undefeated by Judeo-Christianity, continues to flourish in fine art, eroticism, astrology, and pop culture. Others, she says, are androgyny, sadism, and the ambitious western eye, which has created our fine art and cinema. Paglia follows these and other styles, from Nefertiti and the Venus of Willendorf to Apollo and Dionysus, from Botticelli and Michaelangelo to Shakespeare and Blake and lastly to Emily Dickinson, who, and also other major 19th-century writers, becomes a remarkable example of Romanticism turned into Decadence.
