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My sore throat seems gone. Now, my chest aches. From cigarette inhaling? Sigh-of-regret inhaling? Is a cigarette cough the bark of anger which is the echo of the sigh of regret? Vance Bourjaily{{refn|He wrote to {{NM}} in the summer of 1951 with praise for ''[[Barbary Shore]]'', and they immediately became friends. [[w:Vance Bourjaily|Bourjaily]] (1922-2010), whose novels include ''The Violated'' (1958), introduced Mailer to John W. Aldridge, who co-edited ''Discovery'', a literary annual, with Bourjaily. Mailer’s short story, “The Dead Gook,” appeared in the first number in 1952, around the same time that Bourjaily introduced Mailer to James Jones.}} once wrote that a penis was that “slippery bridge from which one of us tries to reach another.” It’s the best line he ever wrote. I wonder if a cigarette is not indeed the bridge of sighs which goes nowhere.

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