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 “Sgt. Rock of Easy Company” and “SpyVs. Spy” then by God, a writer could
 do anything.
-  I mean, listen. It would be great to proclaim that we were drawn in by the
+ </blockquote> I mean, listen. It would be great to proclaim that we were drawn in by the
-sex scenes. The only thing is, until An American Dream, Mailer wouldn’t get
+sex scenes.</blockquote> The only thing is, until An American Dream, Mailer wouldn’t get a shake of the hand from the dedicated literary onanist. Maybe The Time of Her Time.A bit of The Deer Park. But, hey, we’d already read Terry Southern’s Candy. We’d scampered into Lady Chatterley’s Love,r and ’ was the year of the court fight over Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, a book that showed up,{{pg| 414#|415#}} literally in brown paper wrappers, in the school hall from time to time. We were veterans of post-war war novels. Battle Cry by Leon Uris with the bedroom wrestling that always ended in “. . .” and at least two of us were collectors of the fantastic and now much-mourned Monarch Books, a long gone and sadly missed paperback company that had dissected the soul of the
-a shake of the hand from the dedicated literary onanist. Maybe The Time of
-Her Time.A bit of The Deer Park. But, hey, we’d already read Terry Southern’s
-Candy. We’d scampered into Lady Chatterley’s Love,r and ’ was the year of
-the court fight over Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, a book that showed up,{{pg| 414#|415#}} literally in brown paper wrappers, in the school hall from time to time. We
-were veterans of post-war war novels. Battle Cry by Leon Uris with the bedroom wrestling that always ended in “. . .” and at least two of us were collectors of the fantastic and now much-mourned Monarch Books, a long gone
-and sadly missed paperback company that had dissected the soul of the
 thirteen-year-old boy. Titles like: Bloody Beaches (Marines die hard!), Baby
 Face Nelson, Reptilicus, Tarawa, Marine War Heroes, The Indian Wars series,