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In the premiere issue of Secret Shame: The Tabloid Journal of Academic Life, editor Camille Paglia elicits these true confessions:
  • Harold Bloom: "Bart Simpson, ç'est moi."
  • Neil Postman: "I've been retraining as a C programmer."
  • Alan Sokol: "All of modern physics is actually a hoax on cultural studies."
  • David Duchovny: "'The X Files' is based on my Yale dissertation."
  • William S. Burroughs: "Death is even better than drugs."
  • Camille Paglia: "Thinking about Michael Kinsley makes my nipples hard."
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