Bloom, who prefers the Bible to Homer, is Judeo-Christian. His consciousness is completely literary, an orchestral dynasty of the Word. I am Greco-Roman, ruled by visual images and formal theatrics, in art, sport, politics, and war. My personae are like the glossy saints' pictures on Catholic Mass cards, theatrical and outlandishly polychrome. In its psychedelic view of the West, Sexual Personae is like Mantegna's Procession of Caesar , a crowded triumph bristling with strange symbols but observing classical order and form.
History moves on, but art never forgets. . . . . .
In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against which our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.