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MAILER ON “HERZOG” | MAILER ON “HERZOG” | ||
What ''Herzog'' does have, in the Mailer view, “is a sense of compassion I haven’t come across in a long time. There is something almost Russian about “Herzog,”” Mr. Mailer said. “You have to go back to [[w:Fyodor Dostoeyevsky|Dostoeyevsky]]to find a parallel, but ''Herzog'' also has so much self-pity. What did impress me about it was that my heart was literally burning as I read it. It might be one of the most important books written in America and it might not, because it has mistakes. I do not know. But I do know that I do not see Bellow as lord of the intellectuals. He has the mind of a rater dull college professor who has read too many books and grasped the essence of none of them.” | What ''Herzog'' does have, in the Mailer view, “is a sense of compassion I haven’t come across in a long time. There is something almost Russian about “Herzog,”” Mr. Mailer said. “You have to go back to [[w:Fyodor Dostoeyevsky|Dostoeyevsky]] to find a parallel, but ''Herzog'' also has so much self-pity. What did impress me about it was that my heart was literally burning as I read it. It might be one of the most important books written in America and it might not, because it has mistakes. I do not know. But I do know that I do not see Bellow as lord of the intellectuals. He has the mind of a rater dull college professor who has read too many books and grasped the essence of none of them.” | ||
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UNION BETWEEN CANADA AND U.S.A.? | UNION BETWEEN CANADA AND U.S.A.? | ||
''The Oxford History of the American People''(Oxford), and a Canadian newspaperman at the press conference asked the Admiral if he thought that union between the United States and Canada might ever come about. “I think that the only thing that could force any part of Canada into the United States would be the secession of Quebec,” he said. “If that happened the Maritime Provinces would be left out on a limb, and they might prefer to apply to the Unites States rather than be separated by Quebec.” | ''The Oxford History of the American People'' (Oxford), and a Canadian newspaperman at the press conference asked the Admiral if he thought that union between the United States and Canada might ever come about. “I think that the only thing that could force any part of Canada into the United States would be the secession of Quebec,” he said. “If that happened the Maritime Provinces would be left out on a limb, and they might prefer to apply to the Unites States rather than be separated by Quebec.” | ||