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Lipton’s Journal/Correspondence of Robert Lindner and Norman Mailer/March 14, 1955: Difference between revisions
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Ah, well—enough of that. If it’s there, we’ll both know it—or sign off. | Ah, well—enough of that. If it’s there, we’ll both know it—or sign off. | ||
The last few weeks have been disturbing and distressing ones. The death of a close friend set the tone for a whole series of disappointments. Although the book is doing alright, it is just about limping along, and will continue that way unless or until I can get Rinehart to do more advertising. They’ve been content to see it move at about 600 to 1000 copies a week on what they call “word of mouth” and excellent reviews. What it wants, of course, is a goose. That goose would have been provided by the ''Omnibus'' program—which fell through. Yes, my friend, I’ve been fucked but regally—with all the trimmings—and I want you to be among the first to know about it. Seems that when the final decision had to made, the medicos on the board of the Ford Foundation ruled that it would be regarded as an unfriendly act by the medical profession if I, a psychologist, talked about my work and my thinking to twenty-one million people. The implication being that I’m a charlatan and a quack. So they gave me the knife—and that, too, is that. | The last few weeks have been disturbing and distressing ones. The death of a close friend set the tone for a whole series of disappointments. Although the book is doing alright, it is just about limping along, and will continue that way unless or until I can get Rinehart to do more advertising. They’ve been content to see it move at about 600 to 1000 copies a week on what they call “word of mouth” and excellent reviews. What it wants, of course, is a goose. That goose would have been provided by the ''Omnibus'' program—which fell through. Yes, my friend, I’ve been fucked but regally—with all the trimmings—and I want you to be among the first to know about it. Seems that when the final decision had to be made, the medicos on the board of the Ford Foundation ruled that it would be regarded as an unfriendly act by the medical profession if I, a psychologist, talked about my work and my thinking to twenty-one million people. The implication being that I’m a charlatan and a quack. So they gave me the knife—and that, too, is that. | ||
They’ve been other disappointments and shocks, too—but this above was the worst. I wanted this thing, not for what it would do for me, but for what I could do. Do you understand? | They’ve been other disappointments and shocks, too—but this above was the worst. I wanted this thing, not for what it would do for me, but for what I could do. Do you understand? | ||