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 every character is attached carnally to several others.
-In a more significant book, ''The Executioner’s Song'' {{sfn|''The Executioner’s Song''|1979|}}, the career criminal Gary Gilmore traffics in guns and murders with one. He is inept with the
+In a more significant book, ''The Executioner’s Song'' {{sfn|Mailer|1979|}}, the career criminal Gary Gilmore traffics in guns and murders with one. He is inept with the .32 automatic he uses in his two cold-blooded assassinations, for he shoots
-.32 automatic he uses in his two cold-blooded assassinations, for he shoots
 himself in the hand after the second murder, and the bleeding wound casts
 immediate suspicion upon him and leads to his quick capture by the police.
 This episode is in line with Gary’s failures throughout the book and his entire life.
-In ''Why Are We in Vietnam?'' {{sfn|''Why Are We in Vietnam?''|1967|}}, the metaphorical juxtaposition of over-armed Texans hunting in Alaska, and the parallel depredations of the U.S. Army upon the population of Vietnam is best expressed in the passage where DJ lists at length the battery of guns brought on the hunt, especially by his father, Rusty:
+In ''Why Are We in Vietnam?'' {{sfn|Mailer|1967|}}, the metaphorical juxtaposition of over-armed Texans hunting in Alaska, and the parallel depredations of the U.S. Army upon the population of Vietnam is best expressed in the passage where DJ lists at length the battery of guns brought on the hunt, especially by his father, Rusty:
 {{center|Which brings up Rusty, who travels like a big-ass hunter. . . . yeah, he}} {{center|got for instance a .404 Jeffrey on a Mauser Magnum action with a Circassian}} {{center|walnut stock, one love of a custom job by Biesen with Zeiss Zielklein 2}} {{center|1/2X on Griffin & Howe side mount for Gun #1. Gun #2 is Model 70 Winchester}} {{center|rechambered to .300 Weatherly Magnum, Stith Bear Cub scope, birds’-eye maple}}