Omar's Updates en-US Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:04:06 -0700 60 Omar's Updates 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg UserQuote93528292 Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:04:06 -0700 <![CDATA[Omar Magariños liked a quote by Camille Paglia]]> /quotes/12052835
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Men, bonding together, invented culture as a defense against female nature. Sky-cult was the most sophisticated step in this process, for its switch of the creative locus from earth to sky is a shift from belly-magic to head-magic. And from this defensive head-magic has come the spectacular glory of male civilization, which has lifted woman with it. The very language and logic modern woman uses to assail patriarchal culture were the invention of men.Camille Paglia
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Noutro lugar da sua obra Shakespeare amplia o seu modelo de volatilidade andrógina para incluir nele um certo tipo de homem, ou homens colocados em situações especiais: "O lunático, o amante e o poeta/ são compostos, todos eles, de fantasia." (Sonho de uma noite de verão). Amar " é ser feito, por inteiro, de imaginação". Os verdadeiros amantes são "mutáveis e incertos nos seus movimentos" excepto no que respeita à imagem do ser amado. O amante devia vestir-se com "um gibão de tafetá furta-cores", pois a sua mente é "verdadeiramente opalina". O amor desmaterializa a masculinidade. As coisas brilham, ondulam, liquefazem-se. Na sua fluidez dionisíaca, a arte e o amor dissolvem a forma e os costumes sociais. ...moreCamille Paglia
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Shaskepeare e Dionisos

"As furiosas falas de Cleópatra parecem mais chocantes para um ouvido anglo-saxónico do que para um mediterrâneo. O discurso veemente e desabrido é comum entre os povos do Sul, devido à persistência da agricultura e de uma intensidade pagã. Quem vive da terra, ou na proximidade da terra, reconhece a terrível amoralidade da natureza. As sádicas imagens de Cleópatra são normais para um italiano. Os meus parentes italianos imigrados diziam coisas como " Que te matem" ou "Hás-de ser comido por um gato". Segundo o meu pai ,expressões ítalo-americanas comuns foram adoptadas a partir da forma che te possono (que te façam isto ou aquilo). Por exemplo " Que te arranquem os olhos", " Que arrastes a língua pelo chão", "Que te apertem os tomates", " Que te cosam o cu". A similaridade com o estilo retórico de Cleópatra é evidente. A tortura e o homicídio estão sempre próximas da imaginação mediterrânica.
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Words That Work by Frank Luntz
"Eye-opening!

Let's be clear, Frank Luntz is a tool, and he's personally responsible for Republican's misrepresenting their platforms by using the power of word choice. But if you can look at what he's been able to do, you have to admit, he's amazing. Totally unethical, amoral, and a certified bag of dicks, but wow, he's literally convinced dying people to vote against their own medicare, poor people to vote against their own incentive programs, and criminals to increase prison sentences.

Words that work shows the glaring gap between the educated and the average. People aren't clever, logical, rational, or willing to put in hours of research to inform themselves on what the facts actually are. People are busy, scared, and unwilling to do extra work like "understanding." Understanding is hard work, making a snap judgement based on their emotional reaction is incredibly easier. Regardless of how intolerably ignorant it may be, the reality of the world is that this is how the majority of people make their decisions.

If you want to change the world, first speak its language."
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