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Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.

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Camille Paglia
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 2
Art Historian
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Film Critic
Journalist
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Endicott
New York
Camille Anna Paglia
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My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.
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