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Dear Marty,<ref>{{NM}}’s letter to [[w:Martin Peretz|Martin Peretz]], Now editor-in-chief of ''The New Republic, Peretz'' (1939-) was a professor at Harvard when Mailer met him in the early 1960s. Mailer watched Cassius Clay, now known as Muhammad Ali (1942-), defeat Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship in Miami on 25 February 1964}</ref>}
Dear Marty,<ref>Editor-in-chief of ''The New Republic'', [[w:Martin Peretz|Martin Peretz]] was a professor at Harvard when Mailer met him in the early 1960s.</ref>  


Thanks for your letter. I’m not sure I’m going to go into a ski cabin next year, for it proved expensive, and full of headaches this season.
Thanks for your letter. I’m not sure I’m going to go into a ski cabin next year, for it proved expensive, and full of headaches this season.
I still have my nose deep in the serial and I’m not sure I ever want to write a novel this way again. For cumulative fatigue may get in the way of finishing the book properly. I hope not, I think I still haven’t lost the book, but I’m feeling wrung out, dull, and smoking too many cigarettes these days. Forgive the lugubrious tone—I think I’m still recovering from the Clay-Liston fight. One of my secret dreams was to see Patterson and Liston have a great third fight.
I still have my nose deep in the serial and I’m not sure I ever want to write a novel this way again. For cumulative fatigue may get in the way of finishing the book properly. I hope not, I think I still haven’t lost the book, but I’m feeling wrung out, dull, and smoking too many cigarettes these days. Forgive the lugubrious tone—I think I’m still recovering from the Clay-Liston fight.<ref>Mailer watched Cassius Clay, now known as [[w:Muhammad Ali|Muhammad Ali]], defeat [[w:Sonny Liston|Sonny Liston]] for the heavyweight championship in Miami on 25 February 1964.</ref> One of my secret dreams was to see [[w:Floyd Patterson|Patterson]] and Liston have a great third fight.
 
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Latest revision as of 18:10, 6 April 2019

NORMAN MAILER’s Letters
142 Columbia Heights
Brooklyn 1, New York
March 17, 1964

Dear Marty,[1]

Thanks for your letter. I’m not sure I’m going to go into a ski cabin next year, for it proved expensive, and full of headaches this season.

I still have my nose deep in the serial and I’m not sure I ever want to write a novel this way again. For cumulative fatigue may get in the way of finishing the book properly. I hope not, I think I still haven’t lost the book, but I’m feeling wrung out, dull, and smoking too many cigarettes these days. Forgive the lugubrious tone—I think I’m still recovering from the Clay-Liston fight.[2] One of my secret dreams was to see Patterson and Liston have a great third fight.

Best for now,
Norman
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Notes

  1. ↑ Editor-in-chief of The New Republic, Martin Peretz was a professor at Harvard when Mailer met him in the early 1960s.
  2. ↑ Mailer watched Cassius Clay, now known as Muhammad Ali, defeat Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship in Miami on 25 February 1964.
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