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Camille Paglia

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Camille Paglia

Art

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Camille Paglia is saying that bodybuilding today combines many elements like tradition, belief, competition, creativity, and scientific methods, especially using Western knowledge of chemistry and math. She believes it goes beyond what the natural human body can do, achieving results that seem to break natural limits.

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