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These developments fed the early LQ verdict in the January 2008 Smithsonian, a print-medium legacy bible. The presumptive judge, Lance Morrow,dissects Mailer’s “huge ego” and finds it “unpleasant” and “poisonous.”Thus, Mailer “[I]n his own ways he embodied America’s worst faults: selfindulgence, bullying, sense of entitlement, irrelevant belligerence, the obnoxious American self-importance that is a corrupted Emersonianism—Emerson without the sweetness, the calm, the brains, the transcendence”(97).Such deconstruction gets a body English treatment when Morrow refers to a 1994 Valentine’s Day incident at Carl Bernstein’s fiftieth birthday party.Mailer was about to commit a social atrocity and was likened to a madcap Existential killer-driver:

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-SOME PRELIMINARY SPECULATION ON NORMAN MAILER'S LEGACY reminds
-me of a media-fixed auto derby that has already predetermined a Mailer finish as a questionable non-winner at the starting-gate.
-Such derby flux began with the news of Mailer’s recent demise and
+These developments fed the early LQ verdict in the January 2008 ''Smithsonian'', a print-medium legacy bible. The presumptive judge, Lance Morrow,dissects Mailer’s “huge ego” and finds it “unpleasant” and “poisonous.”Thus, Mailer “[I]n his own ways he embodied America’s worst faults: selfindulgence, bullying, sense of entitlement, irrelevant belligerence, the obnoxious American self-importance that is a corrupted Emersonianism—Emerson without the sweetness, the calm, the brains, the transcendence”(97).Such deconstruction gets a body English treatment when Morrow refers to a 1994 Valentine’s Day incident at Carl Bernstein’s fiftieth birthday party.Mailer was about to commit a social atrocity and was likened to a madcap Existential killer-driver:
-became fast-tracked into obvious truth that Mailer’s Legacy Quotient (LQ) is
-unique in that his “character” supersedes and eclipses his canon of work A
-writer’s behavior, in short, is all that matters to some critics. The LQ axiom,
-in Mailer’s case, remains commonplace: character overshadows canon.
-Imagine such absurdity, historically speaking. To hell with ''The Ring'',Wagner was such a rotter. And up the LQ of Will Shakespeare with his blank bio,
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-but down the LQ of the thuggish Ben Jonson. And give a zero read to Ezra
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-Pound, that Fascist. And don’t forget that old goat, Theodore Dreiser, and his
-whorehouse antics. And, yes, Papa Hemingway, that macho bundle of character flaws. Heraclitus said that “Character is Destiny.” Enter Norman Mailer,
-a literary bundle of flux, perhaps destined to have his ego read more than his
-books. Also enter the ubiquitous media that increasingly preside over a
-nation of gawkers rather than readers.
-In 1948, a curtain rose and out trots an unknown with a big war book, an
-overnight best seller and a corresponding big-eyed media. What a readymade twosome, Mailer and the media, mutual enablers, and Norman Mailer
-becomes America’s leading literary celebrity. Unlike his two nearest competitors, Truman Capote and Gore Vidal, Mailer was typecast as ruffian
-extraordinaire—a 24/7 bully-brawler in salons and saloons, the epitome of
-egghead violence. Overnight, Mailer became the undisputed bad boy of
-American letters, so said the drooling, yet chiding media.