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Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories of life before the traumatic separation of birth may be the source of Arcadian fantasies of a lost golden age.
Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories of life before the traumatic separation of birth may be the source of Arcadian fantasies of a lost golden age.
Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
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- Camille Paglia
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- Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Camille Paglia: documented birth year 1947; activity date not established. Wikidata Q255463, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255463 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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