Camille Paglia, as quoted by David Daley Camille Paglia: How Bill Clinton is like Bill Cosby, Salon.com, July 28, 2015
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We are formed by all kinds of strange or vague memories from childhood. That kind of understanding is needed to see that Cosby was involved in a symbiotic, push-pull thing with his wife, where he went out and did these awful things to assert his own independence. But for that, he required the women to be inert. He needed them to be dead! Cosby is actually a necrophiliac--a style that was popular in the late Victorian period in the nineteenth-century.

— Camille Paglia on Bill Cosby

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "We are formed by all kinds of strange or vague memories from childhood. That kind of understanding is needed to see that Cosby was involved in a symbiotic, push-pull thing with his wife, where he went out and did these awful things to assert his own independence. But for that, he required the women to be inert. He needed them to be dead! Cosby is actually a necrophiliac--a style that was popular in the late Victorian period in the nineteenth-century." in the context of "Camille Paglia, as quoted by David Daley Camille Paglia: How Bill Clinton is like Bill Cosby, Salon.com, July 28, 2015" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Camille Paglia

About Camille Paglia

Camille Paglia (born 2 April 1947) is an American author, scholar, feminist and critic, best known for writing Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, a survey of Western art and literature from earliest recorded history to the 20th Century.