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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Introduction to ''Blue Nights''}}
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{{byline|last=Mailer|first=Norman}}
{{byline|last=Mailer|first=Norman|note=From {{cite book |last=Hirose |first=George |date=2008 |title=Blue Nights |url= |location=Provincetown |publisher=Provincetown Arts Press |pages=xi–xii |isbn= |author-link=w:George Hirose }} Reprinted by Project Mailer with permission of the estate of Norman Mailer. (See [[08.2]]).|url=https://prmlr.us/3dFelys}}
 
{{dc|dc=I| had an agreeable return of memory when I looked at these photographs}}. They brought back an exceptional walk on a night in Provincetown during my first visit in June of 1943, an occasion that was right after I finished senior year at Harvard. Having heard now and again about a unique village of fishermen at the tip of Cape Cod, I decided to celebrate there for a weekend.
{{notice|From {{cite book |last=Hirose |first=George |date=2008 |title=Blue Nights |url= |location=Provincetown |publisher=Provincetown Arts Press |pages=xi–xii |isbn= |author-link=w:George Hirose }} Reprinted by Project Mailer with permission of the estate of Norman Mailer. (See [[08.2]]).}}
 
 
I had an agreeable return of memory when I looked at these photographs. They brought back an exceptional walk on a night in Provincetown during my first visit in June of 1943, an occasion that was right after I finished senior year at Harvard. Having heard now and again about a unique village of fishermen at the tip of Cape Cod, I decided to celebrate there for a weekend.


The town was near to deserted, and what I recall most clearly is the darkness of the streets after twilight.  
The town was near to deserted, and what I recall most clearly is the darkness of the streets after twilight.