Lipton’s Journal/December 31, 1954/141: Difference between revisions

What I learn about ''[[The Deer Park]]'' these days. I wrote it in such depression because the whole book is a lie. I put my ideas, my real ideas in the most degraded characters. I made Beda{{LJ:Beda}} a monster, and Marion Faye.{{LJ:Faye}} Ah. Look. Marion, practically reads as Norman if one spells it backwards. All the letters of Norman are present with the addition of I. I really was saying I, Norman, and I kept wondering where Marion came from. ''The Deer Park'' is an attempt to deal with and to conceal from myself that my great enemy, my all-out enemy is the Catholic Church who has stolen the sexual soul of man. And Eitel—I tell.{{LJ:Eitel}} [Herman] Teppis—The eppis, the skin, the man who is all society. {{ins|The piss.}}