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<p>Created page.</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{LJtop}}<br /> The movement of my writing. &#039;&#039;[[The Naked and the Dead|Naked]]&#039;&#039; is a saintly book, everything is understood and forgiven. &#039;&#039;[[Barbary Shore|Barbary]]&#039;&#039; is the attempt to do two things at once. The characters are psychopaths who think of themselves as saints and saints who have acted like psychopaths (McLeod). &#039;&#039;[[The Deer Park]]&#039;&#039; is a parade of psychopaths. I pretend to be condemning, but what repels most people from the book is that I am really saying Rejoice in these people—they are marvelous, they are helping us to destroy the world. &#039;&#039;The Deer Park&#039;&#039; is perhaps the first successful and almost-honest expression of myself as a saint writing about psychopaths and loving them. But the neurotic little boy clouded the issue and tried to make people think he was condemning. <br /> <br /> {{LJnav}}<br /> [[Category:January 24, 1955]]</div>

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