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Camille Paglia Quotes: The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
         

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.


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