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	The man who came out of that experience wrote a few years later in ''Advertisements for Myself'': “I was finally open to my anger, I turned within my psyche, I can almost believe, for I felt something shift to murder in me . . . All I felt was that I was an outlaw, a psychic outlaw and I liked it, I liked it a good night better than trying to be a gentleman.”{{sfn\|Mailer\|1959\|p=234}} Mailer saw ''Lipton’s'' as the prelude to a thousand-page “fuck novel”{{sfn\|Mailer\|2021\|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/December 31, 1954/160\|#160]]}} that would take years to write, a preparation for his attempt to become a daring Dostoyevskian novelist who would “make a revolution in the consciousness of our time.”{{sfn\|Mailer\|1959\|p=17}}		The man who came out of that experience wrote a few years later in ''Advertisements for Myself'': “I was finally open to my anger, I turned within my psyche, I can almost believe, for I felt something shift to murder in me . . . All I felt was that I was an outlaw, a psychic outlaw and I liked it, I liked it a good night better than trying to be a gentleman.”{{sfn\|Mailer\|1959\|p=234}} Mailer saw ''Lipton’s'' as the prelude to a thousand-page “fuck novel”{{sfn\|Mailer\|2021\|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/December 31, 1954/160\|#160]]}} that would take years to write, a preparation for his attempt to become a daring Dostoyevskian novelist who would “make a revolution in the consciousness of our time.”{{sfn\|Mailer\|1959\|p=17}}

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	When Mailer made the final entry to ''Lipton’s'', the journal topped 104,000 words divided into 708 numbered entries. Mailer numbered each entry consecutively over the twenty-one days he wrote in his journal, from December 1, 1954 to
	March 4, 1955. Occasionally he would skip a number and likewise repeat one. Sometimes entries were repetitive, redundant, or ridiculous. The archival manuscript is rough, like a first-draft that an editor might be privy to. It should not be published in its current form, but needed to undergo careful editing to present a cohesive, readable, and logical volume. We decided to approach editing the journal with two platforms in mind, the Web and the book, each with its own intended users: (re)searchers and readers, respectively.

	In this digital project, the main users of the journal will be researchers looking for quick information, likely via Google or through keyword searches of this site. The journal, then, has been remediated to make search the most likely avenue of access. Users may search ''Lipton’s'' on any page of the project, either in the box in the upper-right, or the box above the navigation at the bottom of the page. The latter search box will privilege ''Lipton’s'' entries, while the other presents results form the entire site based on Google’s algorithm. Mailer’s original entries have been renumbered, eliminating errors in the manuscript. Each journal entry has its own page, often with linked cross-references to other entries. Blocks of text in the original have been logically paragraphed for readability, and a navigational box appears at the bottom of every entry for browsing.

	Since the entries occupy their individual pages, annotations are repeated throughout. These annotations explain important people and events that might not be inferred from the text and often provide a greater intellectual and philosophical context for Mailer’s thought, especially to users who may be unfamiliar with or new to Mailer’s work. While readers would find this application of footnotes redundant, the nature of the digital presentation makes their repetition logical. To expand these notes for those who are interested, we have linked many names to Wikipedia articles. We have tried to keep these links in the footnotes for consistency and to avoid unnecessary interruption in the text of the entries.

	We also employ hover notes: these clarify terms or ideas that Mailer discusses in earlier entries but continues to refer to or develop in subsequent ones. Again, the idea here is to provide the necessary context if a researcher lands on an entry in the middle of the journal. These glossed terms are often abbreviations or neologisms that would make little sense without knowledge of previous entries. Hover notes are indicated by a {{H:title\|This is an example of a hover note.\|dotted-underline}} and can be accessed by hovering over them with the mouse pointer.

	Finally, to preserve some of the feel of the manuscript, we have adopted a visual system that shows Mailer’s handwritten edits to the journal. We use a {{ins\|green highlight}} to indicate additions or marginalia, and a {{del\|red line}} to show deleted text.

	In this digital version of ''Lipton’s Journal'', we decided to keep everything from the original manuscript to give researchers the most complete picture of the manuscript as possible, accessible via search. While this would be tedious for readers, for researchers and casual browsers, an edited but complete presentation seemed the best way to approach a Digital Humanities project. Of course, the original document is available via the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, TX, for those needing to see the yellowing, typewritten pages—perhaps a more authentic, albeit less-convenient, way that would likely have been Mailer-approved. Be that as it may, we hope users find this digital version valuable, accessible, and convenient. Of course, any suggestions for improvements are welcome; they may be sent to {{nospam\|editor\|projectmailer.net}}.

	====Notes====		====Notes====

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	[[w:Robert M. Lindner\|Robert Lindner]]’s ''Prescription for Rebellion: A Reinterpretation of Psychoanalysis'', his impassioned 1952 attack on the profession for encouraging patients to adjust rather than rebel.{{efn\|Dr. Lindner’s fourth book was published by Rinehart and Co., on May 27, 1952. His first book, ''Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath'' (1944) was sold to Warner Brothers and made into a 1955 film of the same title starring James Dean, although the title is the only connection to the book. Lindner wrote of edited a total of seven books. His last, posthumous book, ''Must You Conform?'' came out on May 1, 1956.}} Mailer felt a shock of recognition when he read Lindner’s contention that rebellion was humanity’s instinctive response to societal repression. While honoring Freud and his followers, Lindner believed that psychoanalysts had misused and blunted the tools of analysis. Skepticism, unfocused anger, and a quiver of neuroses were assets, not liabilities, and should be celebrated, not discouraged. Rinehart published Lindner’s book, and Mailer was sent a copy. He read it right after it appeared, and wrote Lindner [[Lipton’s Journal/Correspondence of Robert Lindner and Norman Mailer/November 18, 1952\|a long letter a few weeks later]], praising the book’s thesis, but complaining that Lindner failed to identify with any precision what was wrong with society, what actions and inactions were inciting resistance. Both Mailer and Lindner were disheartened by the dull fog of conformity that was rolling over the nation during the Eisenhower era, but they didn’t see eye to eye on what acts of intransigence might help to dissipate it. For example, Lindner did not recognize marijuana as a tool of liberation, while Mailer believed it was a magical drug that purged docility and opened up possibilities for movement and growth. Nevertheless, their correspondence burgeoned into a warm friendship, and for several years they corresponded, talked regularly on the phone, and exchanged visits until early 1956, when Lindner died of congestive heart disease. Mailer sent Lindner chunks of the journal and Lindner sent back responses that further stimulated Mailer, who called their dialogue “inter-fecundation.”{{sfn\|Mailer\|2021\|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/359\|#359]]}} On some matters, Lindner felt that Mailer was on to something important, while on others, he was more concerned about what the drugs were doing to his friend’s mind and his behavior. He was aware that Mailer was a gifted thinker, but he knew enough to see the signs of a man on the edge of paranoia. After their initial letters and meetings, and because of their mutual respect and admiration, Lindner and Mailer became steadfast friends, and with time, Lindner became an internal other for Mailer.		[[w:Robert M. Lindner\|Robert Lindner]]’s ''Prescription for Rebellion: A Reinterpretation of Psychoanalysis'', his impassioned 1952 attack on the profession for encouraging patients to adjust rather than rebel.{{efn\|Dr. Lindner’s fourth book was published by Rinehart and Co., on May 27, 1952. His first book, ''Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath'' (1944) was sold to Warner Brothers and made into a 1955 film of the same title starring James Dean, although the title is the only connection to the book. Lindner wrote or edited a total of seven books. His last, posthumous book, ''Must You Conform?'' came out on May 1, 1956.}} Mailer felt a shock of recognition when he read Lindner’s contention that rebellion was humanity’s instinctive response to societal repression. While honoring Freud and his followers, Lindner believed that psychoanalysts had misused and blunted the tools of analysis. Skepticism, unfocused anger, and a quiver of neuroses were assets, not liabilities, and should be celebrated, not discouraged. Rinehart published Lindner’s book, and Mailer was sent a copy. He read it right after it appeared, and wrote Lindner [[Lipton’s Journal/Correspondence of Robert Lindner and Norman Mailer/November 18, 1952\|a long letter a few weeks later]], praising the book’s thesis, but complaining that Lindner failed to identify with any precision what was wrong with society, what actions and inactions were inciting resistance. Both Mailer and Lindner were disheartened by the dull fog of conformity that was rolling over the nation during the Eisenhower era, but they didn’t see eye to eye on what acts of intransigence might help to dissipate it. For example, Lindner did not recognize marijuana as a tool of liberation, while Mailer believed it was a magical drug that purged docility and opened up possibilities for movement and growth. Nevertheless, their correspondence burgeoned into a warm friendship, and for several years they corresponded, talked regularly on the phone, and exchanged visits until early 1956, when Lindner died of congestive heart disease. Mailer sent Lindner chunks of the journal and Lindner sent back responses that further stimulated Mailer, who called their dialogue “inter-fecundation.”{{sfn\|Mailer\|2021\|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/359\|#359]]}} On some matters, Lindner felt that Mailer was on to something important, while on others, he was more concerned about what the drugs were doing to his friend’s mind and his behavior. He was aware that Mailer was a gifted thinker, but he knew enough to see the signs of a man on the edge of paranoia. After their initial letters and meetings, and because of their mutual respect and admiration, Lindner and Mailer became steadfast friends, and with time, Lindner became an internal other for Mailer.

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	When Mailer made the final entry to ''Lipton’s'', the journal topped 104,000 words divided into 708 numbered entries. Mailer numbered each entry consecutively over the twenty-one days he wrote in his journal, from December 1, 1954 to		When Mailer made the final entry to ''Lipton’s'', the journal topped 104,000 words divided into 708 numbered entries. Mailer numbered each entry consecutively over the twenty-one days he wrote in his journal, from December 1, 1954 to
	March 4, 1955. Occasionally he would skip a number and likewise repeat one. Sometimes entries were repetitive, redundant, or ridiculous. The archival manuscript is rough, like a first-draft that an editor might be privy to. It should not be published in its current form, but needed to undergo careful editing to present a cohesive, readable, and logical volume. We decided to approach editing the journal with two platforms in mind, the Web and the book, each with its own intended users, (re)searchers and readers, respectively.		March 4, 1955. Occasionally he would skip a number and likewise repeat one. Sometimes entries were repetitive, redundant, or ridiculous. The archival manuscript is rough, like a first-draft that an editor might be privy to. It should not be published in its current form, but needed to undergo careful editing to present a cohesive, readable, and logical volume. We decided to approach editing the journal with two platforms in mind, the Web and the book, each with its own intended users: (re)searchers and readers, respectively.

	In this digital project, the main users of the journal will be researchers looking for quick information, likely via Google or through keyword searches of this site. The journal, then, has been remediated to make search the most likely avenue of access. Mailer’s original entries have been renumbered, eliminating errors in the ~~original~~ manuscript. Each journal entry has its own page, often with linked cross-references to other entries. Blocks of text in the original have been logically paragraphed for readability, and a navigational box appears at the bottom of every entry for browsing.		In this digital project, the main users of the journal will be researchers looking for quick information, likely via Google or through keyword searches of this site. The journal, then, has been remediated to make search the most likely avenue of access. Users may search ''Lipton’s'' on any page of the project, either in the box in the upper-right, or the box above the navigation at the bottom of the page. The latter search box will privilege ''Lipton’s'' entries, while the other presents results form the entire site based on Google’s algorithm. Mailer’s original entries have been renumbered, eliminating errors in the manuscript. Each journal entry has its own page, often with linked cross-references to other entries. Blocks of text in the original have been logically paragraphed for readability, and a navigational box appears at the bottom of every entry for browsing.

	Since the entries occupy their individual pages, annotations are repeated throughout. These annotations explain important people and events that might not be inferred from the text and often provide a greater intellectual and philosophical context for Mailer’s thought, especially to users who may be unfamiliar with or new to Mailer’s work. While readers would find this application of footnotes redundant, the nature of the digital presentation makes their repetition logical. To expand these notes for those who are interested, we have linked many names to Wikipedia articles. We have tried to keep these links in the footnotes to avoid unnecessary interruption in the text of the entries.		Since the entries occupy their individual pages, annotations are repeated throughout. These annotations explain important people and events that might not be inferred from the text and often provide a greater intellectual and philosophical context for Mailer’s thought, especially to users who may be unfamiliar with or new to Mailer’s work. While readers would find this application of footnotes redundant, the nature of the digital presentation makes their repetition logical. To expand these notes for those who are interested, we have linked many names to Wikipedia articles. We have tried to keep these links in the footnotes for consistency and to avoid unnecessary interruption in the text of the entries.

	We also employ hover notes: these clarify terms or ideas that Mailer discusses in earlier entries but continues to refer to or develop in subsequent ones. These glossed terms are often abbreviations or neologisms that would make little sense without knowledge of previous entries. Hover notes are indicated by a {{H:title\|This is an example of a hover note.\|dotted-underline}} and can be accessed by hovering over them with the mouse pointer.		We also employ hover notes: these clarify terms or ideas that Mailer discusses in earlier entries but continues to refer to or develop in subsequent ones. Again, the idea here is to provide the necessary context if a researcher lands on an entry in the middle of the journal. These glossed terms are often abbreviations or neologisms that would make little sense without knowledge of previous entries. Hover notes are indicated by a {{H:title\|This is an example of a hover note.\|dotted-underline}} and can be accessed by hovering over them with the mouse pointer.

	. . .		Finally, to preserve some of the feel of the manuscript, we have adopted a visual system that shows Mailer’s handwritten edits to the journal. We use a {{ins\|green highlight}} to indicate additions or marginalia, and a {{del\|red line}} to show deleted text.

			In this digital version of ''Lipton’s Journal'', we decided to keep everything from the original manuscript to give researchers the most complete picture of the manuscript as possible, accessible via search. While this would be tedious for readers, for researchers and casual browsers, an edited but complete presentation seemed the best way to approach a Digital Humanities project. Of course, the original document is available via the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, TX, for those needing to see the yellowing, typewritten pages—perhaps a more authentic, albeit less-convenient, way that would likely have been Mailer-approved. Be that as it may, we hope users find this digital version valuable, accessible, and convenient. Of course, any suggestions for improvements are welcome; they may be sent to {{nospam\|editor\|projectmailer.net}}.

	====Notes====		====Notes====

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	When Mailer made the final entry to “Lipton’s,” the journal topped 104,000 words divided into 707 numbered entries. Mailer numbered each entry consecutively over the twenty-one days he wrote in his journal, from December 1, 1954 to
	March 4, 1955. Occasionally he would skip a number and likewise repeat one. Sometimes entries were repetitive, redundant, or ridiculous. The archival manuscript is rough, like a first-draft that an editor might be privy to. It should not be published in its current form, but needed to undergo careful editing to present a cohesive, readable, and logical volume. We decided to approach editing the journal with two platforms in mind, the Web and the book, each with its own intended users.

	~~Book: Of~~ the ~~707~~ entries in the original~~, 123 repetitious~~ entries have been ~~cut~~, ~~reducing~~ the ~~word count by a little over twenty thousand words~~. ~~The remaining~~ entries have been ~~renumbered~~. No names have ~~been changed,~~ or ~~non~~-~~redundant information redacted~~.		When Mailer made the final entry to “Lipton’s,” the journal topped 104,000 words divided into 708 numbered entries. Mailer numbered each entry consecutively over the twenty-one days he wrote in his journal, from December 1, 1954 to
			March 4, 1955. Occasionally he would skip a number and likewise repeat one. Sometimes entries were repetitive, redundant, or ridiculous. The archival manuscript is rough, like a first-draft that an editor might be privy to. It should not be published in its current form, but needed to undergo careful editing to present a cohesive, readable, and logical volume. We decided to approach editing the journal with two platforms in mind, the Web and the book, each with its own intended users, (re)searchers and readers, respectively.

			In this digital project, the main users of the journal will be researchers looking for quick information, likely via Google or through keyword searches of this site. The journal, then, has been remediated to make search the most likely avenue of access. Mailer’s original entries have been renumbered, eliminating errors in the original manuscript. Each journal entry has its own page, often with linked cross-references to other entries. Blocks of text in the original have been logically paragraphed for readability, and a navigational box appears at the bottom of every entry for browsing.

			Since the entries occupy their individual pages, annotations are repeated throughout. These annotations explain important people and events that might not be inferred from the text and often provide a greater intellectual and philosophical context for Mailer’s thought, especially to users who may be unfamiliar with or new to Mailer’s work. While readers would find this application of footnotes redundant, the nature of the digital presentation makes their repetition logical. To expand these notes for those who are interested, we have linked many names to Wikipedia articles. We have tried to keep these links in the footnotes to avoid unnecessary interruption in the text of the entries.

			We also employ hover notes: these clarify terms or ideas that Mailer discusses in earlier entries but continues to refer to or develop in subsequent ones. These glossed terms are often abbreviations or neologisms that would make little sense without knowledge of previous entries. Hover notes are indicated by a {{H:title\|This is an example of a hover note.\|dotted-underline}} and can be accessed by hovering over them with the mouse pointer.

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	Marijuana: Smoking pot sanctioned and smoothed what Mailer called “the journey into myself,” acting, he said, like an anti-spasmodic drug. It enfeebled his societal self and emboldened his instinctual self; or, put another way, it helped him marginalize the “despised image” of himself: “the sweet clumsy anxious to please Middle-class Jewish boy,” and become a rebel with a cause, a “psychic outlaw.” He found the drug both a means and an end, pleasurable in itself and also an enhancement of his sexual performance, his appreciation of jazz, and even his bodily strength. Without Lipton’s, “Lipton’s” would have been a thinner gruel, more circumspect. Yet, on occasion, Mailer found the use of marijuana, buttressed by [[w:Seconal\|Seconal]] (a barbiturate derivative), booze, cigarettes, and black coffee in various combinations, to be perilous, driving him uncomfortably close to the edge of madness. He knew he was “wandering through all the mountain craters of schizophrenia.” Some of the insights he gained while using Lipton’s, particularly his vision on the evening of ~~February 25~~, 1955 of a divided, vertiginous universe, were terrifying. Both madness and suicide seemed possible. “I don’t think I have ever been so frightened in my life,” he wrote.		Marijuana: Smoking pot sanctioned and smoothed what Mailer called “the journey into myself,” acting, he said, like an anti-spasmodic drug. It enfeebled his societal self and emboldened his instinctual self; or, put another way, it helped him marginalize the “despised image” of himself: “the sweet clumsy anxious to please Middle-class Jewish boy,” and become a rebel with a cause, a “psychic outlaw.” He found the drug both a means and an end, pleasurable in itself and also an enhancement of his sexual performance, his appreciation of jazz, and even his bodily strength. Without Lipton’s, “Lipton’s” would have been a thinner gruel, more circumspect. Yet, on occasion, Mailer found the use of marijuana, buttressed by [[w:Seconal\|Seconal]] (a barbiturate derivative), booze, cigarettes, and black coffee in various combinations, to be perilous, driving him uncomfortably close to the edge of madness. He knew he was “wandering through all the mountain craters of schizophrenia.” Some of the insights he gained while using Lipton’s, particularly his vision on [[Lipton’s Journal/March 4, 1955/707\|the evening of March 4, 1955]] of a divided, vertiginous universe, were terrifying. Both madness and suicide seemed possible. “I don’t think I have ever been so frightened in my life,” he wrote.

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	{{byline\|last=Lennon\|first=J. Michael\|last1=Mailer\|first1=Susan\|last2=Lucas\|first2=Gerald R.}}		{{byline\|last=Lennon\|first=J. Michael\|last1=Mailer\|first1=Susan\|last2=Lucas\|first2=Gerald R.}}
	{{dc\|dc=T\|he mid-1950s was a difficult time for Norman Mailer.}} {{NM}}, who had been a literary phenomenon at the age of 25 with his first novel ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'' (1948), was now at thirty-two the author of an unsuccessful second novel which had been brutally dismissed by the critics. There was much at stake with his third novel, ''[[The Deer Park]]'' (1955), about to be published by Rinehart. Mailer felt it was his chance to redeem himself, to believe once again that he was not an impostor but a true novelist. Mailer recalls this time in his 1959 essay, “[[59.14\|The Mind of an Outlaw]],” ~~Mailer’s ego-bruised, comic-caustic account~~ of how he peddled ''The Deer Park'' accumulating rejections like barnacles, he mentions a journal that he kept during that unhappy time. Titled “Lipton’s” (tea = marijuana), the journal was “a wild set of thoughts and outlines for huge projects.” The ideas “came so fast,” he wrote, “that sometimes I think my mind was dulled by the heat.” He began “Lipton’s”{{efn\|The original typescript is in the Mailer archive at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas-Austin. This edition was prepared from the carbon copy, which Mailer gave to Lennon in the early 2000s.}} on December 1, 1954 and made entries sporadically, usually on Mondays and Tuesdays after a weekend of smoking pot and going to Harlem jazz clubs with his new wife, [[w:Adele Morales\|Adele Morales]]. After 13 weeks, he put the journal aside in order to begin a final revision of ''The Deer Park'', which Putnam’s—the seventh publisher to consider it—accepted for fall publication.		{{dc\|dc=T\|he mid-1950s was a difficult time for Norman Mailer.}} {{NM}}, who had been a literary phenomenon at the age of 25 with his first novel ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'' (1948), was now at thirty-two the author of an unsuccessful second novel which had been brutally dismissed by the critics. There was much at stake with his third novel, ''[[The Deer Park]]'' (1955), about to be published by Rinehart. Mailer felt it was his chance to redeem himself, to believe once again that he was not an impostor but a true novelist. Mailer recalls this time in his 1959 essay “[[59.14\|The Mind of an Outlaw]]” of how he peddled ''The Deer Park'' accumulating rejections like barnacles, and he mentions a journal that he kept during that unhappy time. Titled “Lipton’s” (tea = marijuana), the journal was “a wild set of thoughts and outlines for huge projects.” The ideas “came so fast,” he wrote, “that sometimes I think my mind was dulled by the heat.” He began “Lipton’s”{{efn\|The original typescript is in the Mailer archive at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas-Austin. This edition was prepared from the carbon copy, which Mailer gave to Lennon in the early 2000s.}} on December 1, 1954 and made entries sporadically, usually on Mondays and Tuesdays after a weekend of smoking pot and going to Harlem jazz clubs with his new wife, [[w:Adele Morales\|Adele Morales]]. After 13 weeks, he put the journal aside in order to begin a final revision of ''The Deer Park'', which Putnam’s—the seventh publisher to consider it—accepted for fall publication.

	“Lipton’s” is Mailer’s unsparing assessment of his intellectual resources, literary abilities, personal relationships, and psycho-sexual well-being at age 32. It is also a record of the effects of marijuana, one similar to [[w:Thomas De Quincey\|Thomas De Quincey]]’s ''[[w:Confessions of an English Opium-Eater\|Confessions of an English Opium-Eater]]'' (1822) in its celebration of the salubrious effects of a drug, and the drawbacks. Mailer drew on the cavalcade of ideas in “Lipton’s,” some of them only partially birthed, and many delivered via the cumbersome jargon of psychology and sociology, for the remainder of his writing career. “[[The White Negro]],”{{efn\|First published in ''Dissent'' (summer 1957), it was reprinted in ''Advertisements''. In both it contained the same subtitle: ''Superficial Reflections on the Hipster''. City Light Press in San Francisco published it as a pamphlet in 1959, and reprinted it perhaps a dozen times into the 1970s. The cover was a reverse negative shot of an archetypal hipster, rumored for years to be Paul Newman, but identified as photojournalist Harry Redl. See {{harvtxt\|Bishop\|2012\|p=295}}.}} his most celebrated and debated essay, published in 1957, was the first and perhaps most important outgrowth of “Lipton’s,” but its influence can be seen in subsequent books as disparate as ''[[Cannibals and Christians]]'' (1966), ''[[The Armies of the Night]]'' (1968), ''[[Ancient Evenings]]'' (1983), and ''[[Harlot’s Ghost]]'' (1991).{{efn\|The conflicting forces in ''Cannibals and Christians'' mirror the homeodynamic-sociostatic opposition in “Lipton’s.” The Cannibals are the forces of reaction stretching from the Republican Party to “the ghosts of Nazis; the Christians are the party of revolution and change, and cover the spectrum from L.B.J. to Mao Tse-tung. ''The Armies of the Night'' is as searching a self-analysis as “Lipton’s,” and the best presentation of Mailer’s ultimate political identity as Left-conservative. The nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn is again the “despised” self-image. ''Ancient Evenings'' is among other things, a further exploration of Mailer’s interest in the double or hidden meanings of words, first essayed in “Lipton’s.” ''Harlot’s Ghost'' presents an elaborate rethinking of the duality of human identity, discussed at length in “Lipton’s,” as the Alpha-Omega theory of Kittredge Gardiner, a CIA analyst.}}		“Lipton’s” is Mailer’s unsparing assessment of his intellectual resources, literary abilities, personal relationships, and psycho-sexual well-being at age 32. It is also a record of the effects of marijuana, one similar to [[w:Thomas De Quincey\|Thomas De Quincey]]’s ''[[w:Confessions of an English Opium-Eater\|Confessions of an English Opium-Eater]]'' (1822) in its celebration of the salubrious effects of a drug, and the drawbacks. Mailer drew on the cavalcade of ideas in “Lipton’s,” some of them only partially birthed, and many delivered via the cumbersome jargon of psychology and sociology, for the remainder of his writing career. “[[The White Negro]],”{{efn\|First published in ''Dissent'' (summer 1957), it was reprinted in ''Advertisements''. In both it contained the same subtitle: ''Superficial Reflections on the Hipster''. City Light Press in San Francisco published it as a pamphlet in 1959, and reprinted it perhaps a dozen times into the 1970s. The cover was a reverse negative shot of an archetypal hipster, rumored for years to be Paul Newman, but identified as photojournalist Harry Redl. See {{harvtxt\|Bishop\|2012\|p=295}}.}} his most celebrated and debated essay, published in 1957, was the first and perhaps most important outgrowth of “Lipton’s,” but its influence can be seen in subsequent books as disparate as ''[[Cannibals and Christians]]'' (1966), ''[[The Armies of the Night]]'' (1968), ''[[Ancient Evenings]]'' (1983), and ''[[Harlot’s Ghost]]'' (1991).{{efn\|The conflicting forces in ''Cannibals and Christians'' mirror the homeodynamic-sociostatic opposition in “Lipton’s.” The Cannibals are the forces of reaction stretching from the Republican Party to “the ghosts of Nazis; the Christians are the party of revolution and change, and cover the spectrum from L.B.J. to Mao Tse-tung. ''The Armies of the Night'' is as searching a self-analysis as “Lipton’s,” and the best presentation of Mailer’s ultimate political identity as Left-conservative. The nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn is again the “despised” self-image. ''Ancient Evenings'' is among other things, a further exploration of Mailer’s interest in the double or hidden meanings of words, first essayed in “Lipton’s.” ''Harlot’s Ghost'' presents an elaborate rethinking of the duality of human identity, discussed at length in “Lipton’s,” as the Alpha-Omega theory of Kittredge Gardiner, a CIA analyst.}}

Grlucas: Tweaks.

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Tweaks.

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	{{byline\|last=Lennon\|first=J. Michael\|last1=Mailer\|first1=Susan\|last2=Lucas\|first2=Gerald R.}}		{{byline\|last=Lennon\|first=J. Michael\|last1=Mailer\|first1=Susan\|last2=Lucas\|first2=Gerald R.}}
	{{dc\|dc=T\|he ~~late~~-1950s was a difficult time for Norman Mailer.}} {{NM}}, who had been a literary phenomenon at the age of 25 with his first novel ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'' (1948), was now at thirty-two the author of an unsuccessful second novel which had been brutally dismissed by the critics. There was much at stake with his third novel, ''[[The Deer Park]]'' (1955), about to be published by Rinehart. Mailer felt it was his chance to redeem himself, to believe once again that he was not an impostor but a true novelist. Mailer recalls this time in his 1959 essay, “[[59.14\|The Mind of an Outlaw]],” Mailer’s ego-bruised, comic-caustic account of how he peddled ''The Deer Park'' accumulating rejections like barnacles, he mentions a journal that he kept during that unhappy time. Titled “Lipton’s” (tea = marijuana), the journal was “a wild set of thoughts and outlines for huge projects.” The ideas “came so fast,” he wrote, “that sometimes I think my mind was dulled by the heat.” He began “Lipton’s”{{efn\|The original typescript is in the Mailer archive at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas-Austin. This edition was prepared from the carbon copy, which Mailer gave to Lennon in the early 2000s.}} on December 1, 1954 and made entries sporadically, usually on Mondays and Tuesdays after a weekend of smoking pot and going to Harlem jazz clubs with his new wife, [[w:Adele Morales\|Adele Morales]]. After 13 weeks, he put the journal aside in order to begin a final revision of ''The Deer Park'', which Putnam’s—the seventh publisher to consider it—accepted for fall publication.		{{dc\|dc=T\|he mid-1950s was a difficult time for Norman Mailer.}} {{NM}}, who had been a literary phenomenon at the age of 25 with his first novel ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'' (1948), was now at thirty-two the author of an unsuccessful second novel which had been brutally dismissed by the critics. There was much at stake with his third novel, ''[[The Deer Park]]'' (1955), about to be published by Rinehart. Mailer felt it was his chance to redeem himself, to believe once again that he was not an impostor but a true novelist. Mailer recalls this time in his 1959 essay, “[[59.14\|The Mind of an Outlaw]],” Mailer’s ego-bruised, comic-caustic account of how he peddled ''The Deer Park'' accumulating rejections like barnacles, he mentions a journal that he kept during that unhappy time. Titled “Lipton’s” (tea = marijuana), the journal was “a wild set of thoughts and outlines for huge projects.” The ideas “came so fast,” he wrote, “that sometimes I think my mind was dulled by the heat.” He began “Lipton’s”{{efn\|The original typescript is in the Mailer archive at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas-Austin. This edition was prepared from the carbon copy, which Mailer gave to Lennon in the early 2000s.}} on December 1, 1954 and made entries sporadically, usually on Mondays and Tuesdays after a weekend of smoking pot and going to Harlem jazz clubs with his new wife, [[w:Adele Morales\|Adele Morales]]. After 13 weeks, he put the journal aside in order to begin a final revision of ''The Deer Park'', which Putnam’s—the seventh publisher to consider it—accepted for fall publication.

	“Lipton’s” is Mailer’s unsparing assessment of his intellectual resources, literary abilities, personal relationships, and psycho-sexual well-being at age 32. It is also a record of the effects of marijuana, one similar to [[w:Thomas De Quincey\|Thomas De Quincey]]’s ''[[w:Confessions of an English Opium-Eater\|Confessions of an English Opium-Eater]]'' (1822) in its celebration of the salubrious effects of a drug, and the drawbacks. Mailer drew on the cavalcade of ideas in “Lipton’s,” some of them only partially birthed, and many delivered via the cumbersome jargon of psychology and sociology, for the remainder of his writing career. “[[The White Negro]],”{{efn\|First published in ''Dissent'' (summer 1957), it was reprinted in ''Advertisements''. In both it contained the same subtitle: ''Superficial Reflections on the Hipster''. City Light Press in San Francisco published it as a pamphlet in 1959, and reprinted it perhaps a dozen times into the 1970s. The cover was a reverse negative shot of an archetypal hipster, rumored for years to be Paul Newman, but identified as photojournalist Harry Redl. See {{harvtxt\|Bishop\|2012\|p=295}}.}} his most celebrated and debated essay, published in 1957, was the first and perhaps most important outgrowth of “Lipton’s,” but its influence can be seen in subsequent books as disparate as ''[[Cannibals and Christians]]'' (1966), ''[[The Armies of the Night]]'' (1968), ''[[Ancient Evenings]]'' (1983), and ''[[Harlot’s Ghost]]'' (1991).{{efn\|The conflicting forces in ''Cannibals and Christians'' mirror the homeodynamic-sociostatic opposition in “Lipton’s.” The Cannibals are the forces of reaction stretching from the Republican Party to “the ghosts of Nazis; the Christians are the party of revolution and change, and cover the spectrum from L.B.J. to Mao Tse-tung. ''The Armies of the Night'' is as searching a self-analysis as “Lipton’s,” and the best presentation of Mailer’s ultimate political identity as Left-conservative. The nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn is again the “despised” self-image. ''Ancient Evenings'' is among other things, a further exploration of Mailer’s interest in the double or hidden meanings of words, first essayed in “Lipton’s.” ''Harlot’s Ghost'' presents an elaborate rethinking of the duality of human identity, discussed at length in “Lipton’s,” as the Alpha-Omega theory of Kittredge Gardiner, a CIA analyst.}}		“Lipton’s” is Mailer’s unsparing assessment of his intellectual resources, literary abilities, personal relationships, and psycho-sexual well-being at age 32. It is also a record of the effects of marijuana, one similar to [[w:Thomas De Quincey\|Thomas De Quincey]]’s ''[[w:Confessions of an English Opium-Eater\|Confessions of an English Opium-Eater]]'' (1822) in its celebration of the salubrious effects of a drug, and the drawbacks. Mailer drew on the cavalcade of ideas in “Lipton’s,” some of them only partially birthed, and many delivered via the cumbersome jargon of psychology and sociology, for the remainder of his writing career. “[[The White Negro]],”{{efn\|First published in ''Dissent'' (summer 1957), it was reprinted in ''Advertisements''. In both it contained the same subtitle: ''Superficial Reflections on the Hipster''. City Light Press in San Francisco published it as a pamphlet in 1959, and reprinted it perhaps a dozen times into the 1970s. The cover was a reverse negative shot of an archetypal hipster, rumored for years to be Paul Newman, but identified as photojournalist Harry Redl. See {{harvtxt\|Bishop\|2012\|p=295}}.}} his most celebrated and debated essay, published in 1957, was the first and perhaps most important outgrowth of “Lipton’s,” but its influence can be seen in subsequent books as disparate as ''[[Cannibals and Christians]]'' (1966), ''[[The Armies of the Night]]'' (1968), ''[[Ancient Evenings]]'' (1983), and ''[[Harlot’s Ghost]]'' (1991).{{efn\|The conflicting forces in ''Cannibals and Christians'' mirror the homeodynamic-sociostatic opposition in “Lipton’s.” The Cannibals are the forces of reaction stretching from the Republican Party to “the ghosts of Nazis; the Christians are the party of revolution and change, and cover the spectrum from L.B.J. to Mao Tse-tung. ''The Armies of the Night'' is as searching a self-analysis as “Lipton’s,” and the best presentation of Mailer’s ultimate political identity as Left-conservative. The nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn is again the “despised” self-image. ''Ancient Evenings'' is among other things, a further exploration of Mailer’s interest in the double or hidden meanings of words, first essayed in “Lipton’s.” ''Harlot’s Ghost'' presents an elaborate rethinking of the duality of human identity, discussed at length in “Lipton’s,” as the Alpha-Omega theory of Kittredge Gardiner, a CIA analyst.}}
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	* {{cite journal \|last=Bishop \|first=Sarah \|title=The Life and Death of the Celebrity Author in Maidstone \|url=https://prmlr.us/mr12bish \|journal=The Mailer Review \|volume=6 \|issue=1 \|date=2012 \|pages=288–309 \|access-date= \|ref=harv }}		* {{cite journal \|last=Bishop \|first=Sarah \|title=The Life and Death of the Celebrity Author in Maidstone \|url=https://prmlr.us/mr12bish \|journal=The Mailer Review \|volume=6 \|issue=1 \|date=2012 \|pages=288–309 \|access-date= \|ref=harv }}

Jules Carry: /* Works Cited */ Added Lennon 1988.

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Works Cited: Added Lennon 1988.

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	* {{cite journal \|last=Bishop \|first=Sarah \|title=The Life and Death of the Celebrity Author in Maidstone \|url=https://prmlr.us/mr12bish \|journal=The Mailer Review \|volume=6 \|issue=1 \|date=2012 \|pages=288–309 \|access-date= \|ref=harv }}		* {{cite journal \|last=Bishop \|first=Sarah \|title=The Life and Death of the Celebrity Author in Maidstone \|url=https://prmlr.us/mr12bish \|journal=The Mailer Review \|volume=6 \|issue=1 \|date=2012 \|pages=288–309 \|access-date= \|ref=harv }}
	* {{cite book \|last=Lennon \|first=J. Michael \|date=2013 \|title=Norman Mailer: A Double Life \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MlftBAAAQBAJ \|location=New York \|publisher=Simon and Schuster \|author-link=J. Michael Lennon \|ref=harv }}		* {{cite book \|editor-last=Lennon \|editor-first=J. Michael \|date=1988 \|title=Conversations with Norman Mailer \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4cNFg8Wghy4C \|location=Jackson and London \|publisher=U of Mississippi P \|author-link=J. Michael Lennon \|ref=harv}}
			* {{cite book \|last=Lennon \|first=J. Michael \|authormask=1 \|date=2013 \|title=Norman Mailer: A Double Life \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MlftBAAAQBAJ \|location=New York \|publisher=Simon and Schuster \|author-link=J. Michael Lennon \|ref=harv }}
	* {{cite book \|last=Mailer \|first=Norman \|date=1959 \|title=Advertisements for Myself \|location=New York \|publisher=Putnam’s \|author-link=Norman Mailer \|ref=harv }}		* {{cite book \|last=Mailer \|first=Norman \|date=1959 \|title=Advertisements for Myself \|location=New York \|publisher=Putnam’s \|author-link=Norman Mailer \|ref=harv }}
	* {{cite book \|last=Mills \|first=Hilary \|date=1982 \|title=Mailer: A Biography \|url=https://archive.org/details/mailerbiography00mill \|location=New York \|publisher=McGraw-Hill \|ref=harv }}		* {{cite book \|last=Mills \|first=Hilary \|date=1982 \|title=Mailer: A Biography \|url=https://archive.org/details/mailerbiography00mill \|location=New York \|publisher=McGraw-Hill \|ref=harv }}

Grlucas: Fixed links.

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	[[w:Robert Lindner\|Robert Lindner]]’s ''Prescription for Rebellion: A Reinterpretation of Psychoanalysis'', his impassioned 1952 attack on the profession for encouraging patients to adjust rather than rebel.{{efn\|Dr. Lindner’s fourth book was published by Rinehart and Co., on May 27, 1952. His first book, ''Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath'' (1944) was sold to Warner Brothers and made into a 1955 film of the same title starring James Dean, although the title is the only connection to the book. Lindner wrote of edited a total of seven books. His last, posthumous book, ''Must You Conform?'' came out on May 1, 1956.}} Mailer felt a shock of recognition when he read Lindner’s contention that rebellion was humanity’s instinctive response to societal repression. While honoring Freud and his followers, Lindner believed that psychoanalysts had misused and blunted the tools of analysis. Skepticism, unfocused anger, and a quiver of neuroses were assets, not liabilities, and should be celebrated, not discouraged. Rinehart published Lindner’s book, and Mailer was sent a copy. He read it right after it appeared, and wrote Lindner [[Lipton’s Journal/Correspondence of Robert Lindner and Norman Mailer\|a long letter a few weeks later]], praising the book’s thesis, but complaining that Lindner failed to identify with any precision what was wrong with society, what actions and inactions were inciting resistance. Both Mailer and Lindner were disheartened by the dull fog of conformity that was rolling over the nation during the Eisenhower era, but they didn’t see eye to eye on what acts of intransigence might help to dissipate it. For example, Lindner did not recognize marijuana as a tool of liberation, while Mailer believed it was a magical drug that purged docility and opened up possibilities for movement and growth. Nevertheless, their correspondence burgeoned into a warm friendship, and for several years they corresponded, talked regularly on the phone, and exchanged visits until early 1956, when Lindner died of congestive heart disease. Mailer sent Lindner chunks of the journal and Lindner sent back responses that further stimulated Mailer, who called their dialogue “inter-fecundation.” On some matters, Lindner felt that Mailer was on to something important, while on others, he was more concerned about what the drugs were doing to his friend’s mind and his behavior. He was aware that Mailer was a gifted thinker, but he knew enough to see the signs of a man on the edge of paranoia. After their initial letters and meetings, and because of their mutual respect and admiration, Lindner and Mailer became steadfast friends, and with time, Lindner became an internal other for Mailer.		[[w:Robert M. Lindner\|Robert Lindner]]’s ''Prescription for Rebellion: A Reinterpretation of Psychoanalysis'', his impassioned 1952 attack on the profession for encouraging patients to adjust rather than rebel.{{efn\|Dr. Lindner’s fourth book was published by Rinehart and Co., on May 27, 1952. His first book, ''Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath'' (1944) was sold to Warner Brothers and made into a 1955 film of the same title starring James Dean, although the title is the only connection to the book. Lindner wrote of edited a total of seven books. His last, posthumous book, ''Must You Conform?'' came out on May 1, 1956.}} Mailer felt a shock of recognition when he read Lindner’s contention that rebellion was humanity’s instinctive response to societal repression. While honoring Freud and his followers, Lindner believed that psychoanalysts had misused and blunted the tools of analysis. Skepticism, unfocused anger, and a quiver of neuroses were assets, not liabilities, and should be celebrated, not discouraged. Rinehart published Lindner’s book, and Mailer was sent a copy. He read it right after it appeared, and wrote Lindner [[Lipton’s Journal/Correspondence of Robert Lindner and Norman Mailer/November 18, 1952\|a long letter a few weeks later]], praising the book’s thesis, but complaining that Lindner failed to identify with any precision what was wrong with society, what actions and inactions were inciting resistance. Both Mailer and Lindner were disheartened by the dull fog of conformity that was rolling over the nation during the Eisenhower era, but they didn’t see eye to eye on what acts of intransigence might help to dissipate it. For example, Lindner did not recognize marijuana as a tool of liberation, while Mailer believed it was a magical drug that purged docility and opened up possibilities for movement and growth. Nevertheless, their correspondence burgeoned into a warm friendship, and for several years they corresponded, talked regularly on the phone, and exchanged visits until early 1956, when Lindner died of congestive heart disease. Mailer sent Lindner chunks of the journal and Lindner sent back responses that further stimulated Mailer, who called their dialogue “inter-fecundation.” On some matters, Lindner felt that Mailer was on to something important, while on others, he was more concerned about what the drugs were doing to his friend’s mind and his behavior. He was aware that Mailer was a gifted thinker, but he knew enough to see the signs of a man on the edge of paranoia. After their initial letters and meetings, and because of their mutual respect and admiration, Lindner and Mailer became steadfast friends, and with time, Lindner became an internal other for Mailer.

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	* {{cite journal \|last=Bishop \|first=Sarah \|title=The Life and Death of the Celebrity Author in Maidstone \|url=https://prmlr.us/mr12bish \|journal=The Mailer Review \|volume=6 \|issue=1 \|date=2012 \|pages=288–309 \|access-date= \|ref=harv }}		* {{cite journal \|last=Bishop \|first=Sarah \|title=The Life and Death of the Celebrity Author in Maidstone \|url=https://prmlr.us/mr12bish \|journal=The Mailer Review \|volume=6 \|issue=1 \|date=2012 \|pages=288–309 \|access-date= \|ref=harv }}
	* {{cite book \|last=Lennon \|first=J. Michael \|date=2013 \|title=Norman Mailer: A Double Life \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MlftBAAAQBAJ \|location=New York \|publisher=Simon and Schuster \|author-link=J. Michael Lennon \|ref=harv }}		* {{cite book \|editor-last=Lennon \|editor-first=J. Michael \|date=1988 \|title=Conversations with Norman Mailer \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4cNFg8Wghy4C \|location=Jackson and London \|publisher=U of Mississippi P \|author-link=J. Michael Lennon \|ref=harv}}
			* {{cite book \|last=Lennon \|first=J. Michael \|authormask=1 \|date=2013 \|title=Norman Mailer: A Double Life \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MlftBAAAQBAJ \|location=New York \|publisher=Simon and Schuster \|author-link=J. Michael Lennon \|ref=harv }}
	* {{cite book \|last=Mailer \|first=Norman \|date=1959 \|title=Advertisements for Myself \|location=New York \|publisher=Putnam’s \|author-link=Norman Mailer \|ref=harv }}		* {{cite book \|last=Mailer \|first=Norman \|date=1959 \|title=Advertisements for Myself \|location=New York \|publisher=Putnam’s \|author-link=Norman Mailer \|ref=harv }}
	* {{cite book \|last=Mills \|first=Hilary \|date=1982 \|title=Mailer: A Biography \|url=https://archive.org/details/mailerbiography00mill \|location=New York \|publisher=McGraw-Hill \|ref=harv }}		* {{cite book \|last=Mills \|first=Hilary \|date=1982 \|title=Mailer: A Biography \|url=https://archive.org/details/mailerbiography00mill \|location=New York \|publisher=McGraw-Hill \|ref=harv }}