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- noun The process of
tearing apart oflimbs from ones body
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bilby commented on the word sparagmos
"Long before 'The Prisoner Of Sex' dealt the final stroke to 'Harper's', Mailer was setting up his own morality , in which he could enact his own sparagmos by being torn apart by a horde of women, for he would not risk being outfaced by a single woman."
- 'My Mailer Problem', Germaine Greer in Esquire, 1971.
April 6, 2008