Lipton’s Journal/Correspondence of Robert Lindner and Norman Mailer/August 19, 1954: Difference between revisions
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It seems as if the deal on ''Naked''{{refn|The film version was sold to a production company run by Charles Laughton and Paul Gregory. It was not completed and released until 1958, and received generally tepid reviews.}} is going to go through, and to Adele’s amazement, I feel absolutely flat about that. I suppose what depressed me is that at least half of me, hopes for the day when I’ll be poor, faced with the real realities of life, and therefore able to write better. Which is probably nonsense, but the ideas and passions of college, like art in a garret and traveling the wide world of adventure die very hard, don’t they ''amigo''? | It seems as if the deal on ''Naked''{{refn|The film version was sold to a production company run by Charles Laughton and Paul Gregory. It was not completed and released until 1958, and received generally tepid reviews.}} is going to go through, and to Adele’s amazement, I feel absolutely flat about that. I suppose what depressed me is that at least half of me, hopes for the day when I’ll be poor, faced with the real realities of life, and therefore able to write better. Which is probably nonsense, but the ideas and passions of college, like art in a garret and traveling the wide world of adventure die very hard, don’t they ''amigo''? | ||
Everything seems routine now at Rinehart on ''The Deer Park'' that just as it was hard to write, so will its publishing life be full of episodes and near-catastrophes. Now the bitch is in England, where they like it, but as I understand from Cy, Cape | Everything seems routine now at Rinehart on ''The Deer Park'' that just as it was hard to write, so will its publishing life be full of episodes and near-catastrophes. Now the bitch is in England, where they like it, but as I understand from Cy, Cape{{refn|The English publisher of ''Barbary Shore''.}} wrote Ted{{LJ:Amussen}} something to the effect that I sure was a novelist but that little old ''Deer Park'' might need “a fig-leaf or two.” Fig ’em. I mean it. | ||
About my health—it’s fine. After a month of laying off completely, I’ve been drinking sparingly and feel no compulsion about having to have stuff. Of course we haven’t been meeting many strange people and that could be part of it too. Incidentally, it just occurs to me, I think it would be better, Bob, if you don’t mention the marijuana because you know how that kind of story will spread about me. | About my health—it’s fine. After a month of laying off completely, I’ve been drinking sparingly and feel no compulsion about having to have stuff. Of course we haven’t been meeting many strange people and that could be part of it too. Incidentally, it just occurs to me, I think it would be better, Bob, if you don’t mention the marijuana because you know how that kind of story will spread about me. | ||