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Rpt: [[48.1]], [[98.6]] (new edition, with new introduction), [[98.7]] (partial). See other [[1948]] entries, [[49.3]], [[65.21]], [[68.31]], [[74.18]], [[74.20]], [[76.21]], [[92.12]], [[95.53]] and, passim, in [[59.13]]; and Mailer's recollections in [[03.7]]. | Rpt: [[48.1]], [[98.6]] (new edition, with new introduction), [[98.7]] (partial). See other [[1948]] entries, [[49.3]], [[65.21]], [[68.31]], [[74.18]], [[74.20]], [[76.21]], [[92.12]], [[95.53]] and, passim, in [[59.13]]; and Mailer's recollections in [[03.7]]. | ||
{{cquote|I came out of the Army with an idea for a novel about a long patrol, an idea which had been bound in its origins to a mountain which was to serve as both an actual mass of stone and as a symbolic base for the book. The original conception was allegorical. The mountain was a consciously ambiguous symbol, something too complex, too intangible, to be defined by language.|author=Norman Mailer |source=[[48.4]]}} | |||
{{cquote|I came out of the Army with an idea for a novel about a long patrol, an idea which had been bound in its origins to a mountain which was to serve as both an actual mass of stone and as a symbolic base for the book. The original conception was allegorical. The mountain was a consciously ambiguous symbol, something too complex, too intangible, to be defined by language. | |||