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It is of interest to note that even on the level of fantasy, for Mailer the body finds its nearly mystical expression in corporeal identification and communion with Hemingway in a roundabout way. In ''The Fight,'' his book on the Muhammad Ali-George Forman fight in Zaïre, Mailer writes, “To be{{pg|191|192}} | It is of interest to note that even on the level of fantasy, for Mailer the body finds its nearly mystical expression in corporeal identification and communion with Hemingway in a roundabout way. In ''The Fight,'' his book on the Muhammad Ali-George Forman fight in Zaïre, Mailer writes, “To be{{pg|191|192}} | ||
eaten by a lion on the banks of the Congo—who could fail to notice that it was Hemingway’s own lion waiting down these years for the flesh of Ernest until an appropriate substitute had at last arrived?”{{sfn|Mailer|1975|p=92}} | |||
'''XII. CONCLUSION''' | |||
I trust I have shown Mailer’s visionary interpretation and appropriation of Hemingway comprises amode of influence whose thrust and effect are genuinely original and creative. As such, it is a theoretical influence. By theoretical I would like to communicate mainly the etymological sense of the adjective in Greek as ''theoria,'' which conveyed an act of viewing or beholding, of having a vision that entitles the beholder to holding or possessing what is beheld in his or her own way. So it may be “Hemingway all the way,” but magically in Mailer’s own entirely visionary interpretive way with all its startling twists and turns, leading us always to territories best known to him. | |||
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