Pornography shows us nature's daemonic heart, those eternal ****** at work beneath and beyond social convention. Pornography cannot be separated from art; the two interpenetrate each other, far more than humanistic criticism has admitted. Geoffrey Hartman rightfully says, "Great art is always flanked by its dark sisters, blasphemy and pornography." Hamlet itself, the cardinal western work, is full of lewdness… Pornography is pure paganism imagism. Just as a poem is ritually limited verbal expression, so is pornography ritually limited visual expression of the daemonism of sex and nature. Every shot, every angle in pornography, no matter how silly, twisted, or pasty, is yet another attempt to get the whole picture of the enormity of the chthonian nature… Pornography's amoral pictorialism will live forever as a rebuke to the humanistic cult of the redemptive word. Words cannot save the cruel flux of pagan culture.
