Lipton’s Journal/December 29, 1954/104: Difference between revisions
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A possibility occurs to me on The Deer Park. To wit, Marion Faye starts sending his journal to Sergius—in prison he has finally made it on Lipton’s.[1] So, when The Deer Park ends, Sergius appends an addition in which he says that now he is finished as author and must become editor. There is this flood of notes from Marion Faye, and he has not the courage to rewrite his novel in view of this new information. So he submits it to the reader who may have been bored, irritated, or enthralled by The Deer Park itself, and he invites the reader to read it, and if it interest him, to then reread The Deer Park and see it as Marion Faye would have seen it.
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- ↑ Mailer did not add Faye’s journal to the final draft of The Deer Park, which he completed in the summer of 1955. Over the next six or seven years, however, he made a few half-hearted attempts to write a sequel to the novel, and Faye’s notes on his experiments with marijuana in prison are part of these unpublished fragments.
