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{{Byline |last=Apple |first=Max |abstract=Max Apple’s satirical short story imagines a surreal boxing match between the narrator and the literary titan Norman Mailer, blending bravado, absurdity, and literary criticism. Through this hilarious and metaphoric battle, Apple pokes fun at Mailer’s outsized persona and reputation while reflecting on the struggles of ambition, authorship, and masculine performance in American letters. |note=Reprinted by permission of the author, Max {{harvtxt|Apple|1976|pp=49–60}}. |url=http://prmlr.us/mr04app}}

{{Byline|last=Apple|first=Max|note=Reprinted by permission of the author, Max ~~Apple. From~~ {{~~cite book~~ |~~last= |first= |date= |title=The Oranging of America~~ |~~url= |location=New York |publisher=Viking |year=~~1976 |~~pages~~=~~49-60 |ref=harv~~ }}|url=.~~...~~}}

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“I know,” says my gentle master, “but think about one big thing.”

I concentrate on the new edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It works. My mind is less a palimpsest, more a blank page.

I concentrate on the new edition of the ''Encyclopedia Britannica''. It works. My mind is less a palimpsest, more a blank page.

“You may be too young to remember,” he says, “James Jones and James T. Farrell and James Gould Cozzens and dozens like them. I took them all on, absorbed all they had and went on my way, just like Shakespeare ate up

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nor raise a fist to any man.” His words and his music are like Christmas

morning. I go forth, a seer.

==Work Cited==

* {{cite book |last=Apple |first=Max |date=1976 |title=The Oranging of America |url= |location=New York |publisher=Viking |ref=harv }}

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+I concentrate on the new edition of the ''Encyclopedia Britannica''. It works. My mind is less a palimpsest, more a blank page.
 “You may be too young to remember,” he says, “James Jones and James T. Farrell and James Gould Cozzens and dozens like them. I took them all on, absorbed all they had and went on my way, just like Shakespeare ate up
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 nor raise a fist to any man.” His words and his music are like Christmas
 morning. I go forth, a seer.
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