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Tom Wolfe’s ''The Right Stuff''. Polar opposites in style they yet combine to make a comprehensive whole. | Tom Wolfe’s ''The Right Stuff''. Polar opposites in style they yet combine to make a comprehensive whole. | ||
Tucked away in my own copy of ''A Fire on the Moon'' (salvaged from a second hand bookshop) is a clipping from the January 1971 edition of ''Time'' magazine, a review of Mailer’s book entitled ''Reflections on a Star-Cross Aquarius''. Rescued from its time capsule it provides not just the context for the book’s publication, but a literary fragment of the early 1970s. From a time when the fire of Apollo was still burning brightly enough for the exploits of its sons to be witnessed by a global audience, gazing both literally and metaphorically at the furthest of horizons. | Tucked away in my own copy of ''A Fire on the Moon'' (salvaged from a second-hand bookshop) is a clipping from the January 1971 edition of ''Time'' magazine, a review of Mailer’s book entitled ''Reflections on a Star-Cross Aquarius''. Rescued from its time capsule it provides not just the context for the book’s publication, but a literary fragment of the early 1970s. From a time when the fire of Apollo was still burning brightly enough for the exploits of its sons to be witnessed by a global audience, gazing both literally and metaphorically at the furthest of horizons. | ||
These celestial knights (who belong to American folklore as much as any | These celestial knights (who belong to American folklore as much as any |