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...has an affair with movie star Lulu Meyers.}} and finally in Marion Faye,{{refn|NM’s anti-hero for a post-Hiroshima world in ''The Deer Park'', Faye (son

...ith food to dull the sensitivity of the {{LJ:H}}. No wonder Joe Rosenthal{{refn|Unknown.}} is always fed up.

...d infuse complex gloom with the radiance of anarchism. As Jenny Silverman{{refn|Mother of {{NM}}’s first wife Bea.}} said of me once, “The little pishe

Last night I caught a piece of ''Omnibus''.{{refn|An educational discussion program, hosted by Alistair Cooke, on network tel

Out of curiosity I’ve started taking the Indian Roximyl{{refn|Unknown.}} or whatever it is. It does leave me in a pleasant state, sort of

Listening to Dizzy Gillespie{{refn| NM heard [[w:Dizzy Gillespie|Gillespie]] (1917-1993), one of the great jaz

...of ''Finnegans Wake'' in centuries or millennia or possibly much sooner.{{refn|''[[w:Finnegans Wake|Finnegans Wake]]'' is the experimental serio-comic nov

...y worried about me. Juan Bilbao talking to Bette Ford about Pat McCormick{{refn|Mailer met this trio at bullfights in Mexico. [[w:Bette Ford|Ford]] (b. 193

...have been, that fellow, if he read the interview where I said the second.{{refn|{{NM}} refers to his 1948 interview with Louise Levitas, “The Naked are F

...and the Dead]]'', published a year later by Rinehart.}} Jenny Silverman,{{refn|Mother of {{NM}}’s first wife Bea.}} others. {{ins|Guinevere.}}

...r won, but the film won one for best picture.}} and some Keystone Chaplin{{refn|{{NM}} met Chaplin (1889-1977) in Hollywood in 1949 when the great actor at

...now with the Cold War—the war of sensitivities becomes keyed to its full.{{refn|Mailer was also familiar with the writings of [[w:Vladimir Lenin|Vladimir L

...m someday which would be [[w:Tallulah Bankhead|Tallulah]] or Faye Emerson{{refn|A film actress who made the jump to live television, [[w:Faye Emerson|Emers

Toynbee’s{{refn|In ''The Study of History'' (1934-61), [[w:Arnold Toynbee|Arnold Toynbee]]

...o, working with Malaquais{{LJ:Malaquais}} on ''Character of the Victim'',{{refn|A screenplay based on Nathanael West’s 1933 novel, ''Miss Lonleyhearts'',

...d the joy of “masculine company” are drawn to the genuine desire in John.{{refn|'''John Walsh . . . Slim and Glenn and Clem''': Unknown.}} ...ction that’s felt for the name becomes genuine love and we have The Snob.{{refn|Mailer writes {{ins|Expand}} next to this paragraph.}}

...me. And who knows? They’re even saying Freud and Fleiss had a mad affair!{{refn|[[w:Wilhelm Fleiss|Wilhelm Fleiss]] (1858-1928), a German medical doctor, w ...go querido'',{{refn|Dear friend.}} this flirtation of yours with the gage{{refn|Marijuana.}}—this I do not like. Not because it may mean early doom or re

The big novel could be called ''Antacid Analgesic''.{{refn|It is unclear if {{NM}} understood how and why these two drugs are combined

...because that is the way a part of us (our souls) really felt at the time.{{refn|In the margin, {{NM}} wrote {{ins|Expand}}.}} As a wild extra, déjà vu ma

...ment}} {{ins|remark}}, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation,”{{refn|The most quoted line from ''[[w:Walden|Walden; or, Life in the Woods]]'' ({

A note on my Self-Analysis. I’m not doing it a la Horney.{{refn|In 1942, [[w:Karen Horney|Karen Horney]] published ''Self-Analysis'', which ...machine. The same technique like the bed of society (the bed of Bluebeard{{refn|Mailer confuses Bluebeard with [[w:Procrustes|Procrustes]], a son of [[w:Po

{{ins|Perhaps}} The secret of Marilyn Monroe’s{{refn|Mailer’s biography of [[w:Marilyn Monroe|Monroe]] (1926-62), ''[[Marilyn:

Wild thought. The atom bomb may actually have kicked off hipsterism.{{refn|{{NM}} was perhaps the first writer to apprehend the causal links between t

...satisfaction until the hangover comes—the homeostatic urges (homeodynamic{{refn|In a physiological sense, '''homeostasis''' is the normal condition of the ...by homeodynamism. Thus guilt and shame are not close—''They are Polar''.{{refn|In the margin, Mailer wrote “{{ins|Rewrite}}” indicating the entire ent

...rresolute, tender, anxious, vulnerable, earnest, and Jewish middle-class.{{refn|In ''[[The Armies of the Night]]'' (1968), {{NM}} states that the only part

Nat Halper.{{refn|A long-time art dealer in Provincetown, Nathan “Nat” Halper (1907-1983)

...novel, ''[[Lipton’s Journal/December 17, 1954/60|Antacid Analgesique]]''.{{refn|Pondered and discussed for years, this behemoth was never written, one of s

Steve Allen{{refn|A multi-talented composer and comedian, [[w:Steve Allen|Allen]] (1921-2000)

...r other writings of this kind you can find. Huxley’s ''Devils of Loudun''{{refn|A nonfiction account by [[w:Aldous Huxley|Aldous Huxley]] (1894-1963) of th

...n is a man in woman’s envelope. The man is a woman in man’s envelope—Toby{{refn|Toby Schneebaum was a homosexual neighbor of Mailer’s.}} for instance. ...active unisexual is the most difficult to alter. Gore Vidal for example.{{refn|{{NM}} met [[w:Gore Vidal|Gore Vidal]] (1925-2012) in 1952, and their lives

...elf leaping ahead in my mind—or arguing fiercely as if you were present.”{{refn|See the letter dated [[Lipton’s Journal/Correspondence of Robert Lindner ...everything created is a dead end unless it serves to stimulate the artist{{refn|{{NM}} never stopped stating that it was the work of other artists that gav

...seless as well, and time deprived of cause and effect had come to a stop.{{refn|Mailer also makes the existential argument here that “death being causele ...then who could ignore the most hideous of questions about his own nature?{{refn|Mailer’s logic leads then to this inescapable conclusion, phrased here as

...said, “Reik, you want to be a big man, make your mark, piss in one spot!”{{refn|An American psychologist, [[w:Theodore Reik|Theodore Reik]] (1888-1969) was

...let you know that there’s no news on the big thing yet. I’ve submitted it{{refn|''[[The Deer Park]]''.}} simultaneously to Knopf and Random House (please d ...ch I believe is pretty big. It’s the old thing I discovered from Lipton’s{{refn|Marijuana.}} that tremendous truth is to be found in the cliché if you cra

The breakup with Lulu{{LJ:Lulu}} at Dorothea O’Faye’s party:{{refn|The long paragraph following these words describing how Lulu’s life had b ...we were left apart, she on her mountain peak, I to wander the valleys.}}{{refn|The {{ins|highlighted text}} indicates Mailer’s handwritten additions to

...the rational saint sent out to find the good in monsters and psychopaths.{{refn|A prophetic statement. {{NM}}’s fictional heroes and biographical subject

...am thinking today. Thus, the meaningless beginning of Chap. 16, by McLeod{{refn|William McLeod is a former communist “hangman” who renounces Stalinism,

...read him. (That is I never read more than a hundred pages of ''Ulysses'',{{refn|At Harvard, {{NM}} read up through “Calypso,” the fourth chapter of Jam

Perhaps the reason Susy{{LJ:Susan}} was so flat with Millie{{refn|A friend and distant cousin of {{NM}}’s, Millie Brower had the lead in hi

Homeostasis and sociostasis.{{refn|{{NM}} presents this struggle as a crucial dialectic: the thesis is '''soci ...tasis. War in that sense is not the health of the state (Randolph Bourne){{refn|A progressive thinker, [[w:Randolph Bourne|Bourne]] (1886-1918) wrote an an

...nd weakness as a man and an artist is in that. He was repelled by Maloney{{refn|A writer friend of Larry Alson (1920-2016), a writer and editor who was mar

Television may have some extraordinary quality{{refn|{{NM}} was intrigued by the possibility that television’s monotony had a

...tter was a great relief. I feared that I had spoken out of turn with Ted,{{refn|Theodore Amussen (1915-1988), editor for both {{NM}} and Lindner at Rinehar About your book{{refn|''[[The Deer Park]]''.}}—Norman, it is so good, and has such potential, t

...he one who denies. One’s mother implants upon the infant’s sensate matter{{refn|{{NM}} explores the infant-mother relationship with verve and humor in “[ ...rial he wished to disgorge and leave as his petrifaction, his mark (Reik,{{refn|An American psychologist, [[w:Theodore Reik|Theodore Reik]] (1888-1969) was

...eeking all his life and which he approached in “The Jet-Propelled Couch.”{{refn|A chapter from Lindner’s 1955 collection, ''The Fifty-Minute Hour''. Each

...one who must take on the whole world (The small trumpet of my defiance).{{refn|On the next-to-last page of ''[[The Deer Park]]'', Sergius imagines Eitel t

...a rabbi furious that his most talented disciple was wearing his tfillen){{refn|'''Chassidility''' refers to the Hasidic Orthodox sect; the second, spelled

...h Ted Amussen,{{LJ:Amussen}} Stan Rinehart,{{LJ:Rinehart}} John Aldridge,{{refn|A prolific literary critic and professor at the University of Michigan, [[w

The tragic air of Mexico{{refn|{{NM}} usually spent two or three months every year from 1952–59, visitin

Dialogue: Yesterday, Hiram Haydn{{refn|A prominent figure in the postwar New York literary world, and longtime edi

...never could accept the Soviet Union even in the height of my Wallace days{{refn|In 1948, {{NM}} campaigned for [[w:Henry A. Wallace|Henry A. Wallace]], the

...he pillars of society like Stalin, Chamberlain, the D.A.R.s, my Aunt Nan,{{refn|Anne Mailer Kessler (1889-1958) was the sister of Mailer’s father, Barney

...act that—I’ve been—as you seem to sense—close to illness with exhaustion.{{refn|It appears that the root cause Lindner’s declining health was congestive ''Genug!''{{refn|Enough.}}

...he bark of anger which is the echo of the sigh of regret? Vance Bourjaily{{refn|He wrote to {{NM}} in the summer of 1951 with praise for ''[[Barbary Shore]

Marion Faye’s{{LJ:Faye}} note: Re: Teddy Pope,{{refn|In ''[[The Deer Park]]'', a handsome gay actor who is forced to play straig

...refn|A Hebrew term meaning a righteous or holy person.}} of the Chasidim,{{refn|A sect of Orthodox Jews that arose in Eastern Europe in the late 18th centu

...u don’t have the time to do personally but would like to see followed up.{{refn|This job never materialized.}} As far as pay goes, I don’t care about tha ...other connection.}} belongs to you now or is still in Jerry Wald’s hands.{{refn|[[w:Jerry Wald|Wald]] (1911-62) was a screenwriter and producer who won an

...uck like the ultimate end of thought is to comprehend the universe whole.{{refn|At which point all dualisms, oppositions, duads, and polarities would disap

...Last week I was a patient at the Doctor’s Hospital in New York and Billie{{refn|Rembar’s wife.}} and Cy{{LJ:Rembar}} came to see me at Johnnie’s{{LJ:Jo

...-publishable in its present form (which had been at the back of my mind.){{refn|{{NM}} never changed his mind about publishing of “Lipton’s,” but he ...One thing which bucked me up is that in going over ''[[The Deer Park]]''{{refn|Mailer missed several deadlines for submitting the last draft to Putnam’s

...ere. I am not sniping at him—if I were, I would not send him these notes,{{refn|{{NM}} sent Lindner a sheaf of pages from “Lipton’s” perhaps every tw ...it up, although a part of him is always drawn to new therapies, Rosen’s,{{refn|A physical therapist, [[w:Marion Rosen|Rosen]] (1914-2012) created the Rose

...ed to answer [[w:Berthold Brecht|Berthold Brecht]] on “artistic freedom.”{{refn|{{NM}}’s essay, “What I Think of Artistic Freedom,”  dated February

...d it may be that Johnnie or you might be also—''sans façons'' as Don Beda{{refn|Character in ''The Deer Park'' who organizes and participates in orgies.}} ...“stereotype of evil,” fixing the orgy, and improving Sergius’ character.{{refn|Sergius O’Shaughnessey is the narrator of ''The Deer Park''; Dorothy and

...tnam. vis. ''[[w:The Man in The White Suit|The Man in The White Suit]]''.{{refn|[[w:Alec Guinness|Alec Guinness]] stars in this 1951 satirical comedy about

...s me of a bubble’s burst in a cauldron of some thick liquid, an ''etwas''{{refn|Something.}} (sentence, thought, vagrant phrase) rises to the surface, brea Parenthetically, the “Jet-Propelled Couch”{{refn|A chapter from Linder’s collection, ''The Fifty-Minute Hour'', appeared i

...Rinehart.{{LJ:Rinehart}} He must excise the presence of ''The Deer Park''{{refn|{{NM}}’s third novel, set in a Palm Springs-like resort town in southern

In a ''Collier’s'' article, Mendes-France{{refn|French Minister of Foreign Affairs, {{daterange|1954|1955}}, [[w:Pierre Men

...ic) and those who are ''Dead'' (sociostatic). For underneath, as Laughton{{refn|{{NM}} met [[w:Charles Laughton|Charles Laughton]] (1899-1962) in 1954, and ...eader Croft who is obviously the saint-psychopath in me, just as Cummings{{refn|General Edward Cummings is the semi-fascistic commanding general of U.S. fo

...e discrimination I’ll be founding a sect halfway between the Rosicrucians{{refn|[[w:Rosicrucianism|Rosicrucianism]] is an international organization that c

Norman Thomas{{refn|A Protestant minister and pacifist, [[w:Norman Thomas|Thomas]] (1884–1968

...t it is certainly less of a riddle than that there is a God who gave Life{{refn|An early, rudimentary statement of {{NM}}’s belief in a divided universe,

...us. Me is our word for the unconscious). That is why my narrators, Lovett{{refn|The amnesiac war veteran and the narrator of ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]''

...whenever I feel bored or worn out with one, I must leave it for the next.{{refn|{{NM}} took this advice and for the rest of his life worked on several proj

Every word sets up its opposite echo.{{refn|A great deal, of ''Lipton’s'' is given over to {{NM}}’s theories about

Antacid Analgesic.{{refn|{{NM}}’s knowledge of chemistry was thin, but he seems to be looking at t

...er{{LJ:Bergler}} (what’s in a name?) wrote a book ''Divorce Won’t Help''.{{refn|Bergler’s 1948 book argued that divorce usually didn’t solve the fundam

...failing. Particularly in modern jazz one notices how Brubeck and Desmond{{refn|[[w:Dave Brubeck|Dave Brubeck]] ({{daterange|1920|2012}}), a composer and p

...take over. Kid, it’s [Paul] Verlaine and [Arthur] Rimbaud all over again.{{refn|[[w:Paul Verlaine|Verlaine]] (1844-1896), a major symbolist poet, took in [ ...se their minds have saintly qualities. ({{ins|Gide and}} Gertrude Stein).{{refn|Mailer’s opinion of [[w:Gertrude Stein|Stein]] (1874-1946), one of modern

When I was a kid in college I wrote “The Bodily Function Blues”{{refn|{{NM}} belted out this song for his family and friends for decades. In 1995

...the public. Literary style is always the record of the war within a man.{{refn|{{NM}} expanded this metaphor in a long self-interview in ''[[Cannibals and

...s the bull to make a bullfight, and when we have a Ferdinand in the ring,{{refn|{{NM}} refers to [[w:Munro Leaf|Monroe Leaf]]’s 1936 children’s book, ' ...s turn on their hero-bullfighters when they’re bad. And no wonder El Loco{{refn|Nickname of the Mexican bullfighter, Amado Ramirez, who Mailer saw fight du

...age, they have lost their early instinctual apprehension of the universe,{{refn|The richest exploration of {{NM}}’s views on the pre-knowledge of childre

...p conservative seeds. Certainly, there is a vast conservative echo in me,{{refn|Another prescient statement; from the late 1960s on {{NM}} described himsel

...ho as recently as two years ago had the fastest reading rate Fig Gwaltney{{refn|Francis I. Gwaltney (1921-1980) joined {{NM}}’s unit in Luzon and they be

The person who is {{LJ:er}}-oriented like Ivan Von Auw{{refn|Literary agent (1903-91) at the Harold Ober Agency.}} has patience. They ca

...the above three; even as mystics they wrote as crabbed rationalists—Kant.{{refn|One of the major philosophers of the Enlightenment, [[w:Immanuel Kant|Imman

...said to me in passing, “Maybe you could do a piece on Serge Rubinstein.”{{refn|A wealthy Russian émigré and shady businessman whose father financed the Yet with Howe{{refn|Literary critic and founding editor of the leftist quarterly ''Dissent'', [

...al to Sergius{{LJ:Sergius}}—in prison he has finally made it on Lipton’s.{{refn|{{NM}} did not add Faye’s journal to the final draft of ''The Deer Park''

...n—Kirk is about the same, but you know how enthusiastic I was about that.{{refn|'''Charles, Mac, and Anton—Kirk''': Pseudonyms for Lindner’s patients d ...s. I went far because they were willing to leave the Teppis scene intact.{{refn|Depiction in ''The Deer Park'' of Herman Teppis, a Hollywood producer, gett

And now I understand Monroe St. and the hammer I got on my head.{{refn|For six months in 1951 {{NM}} and Adele lived on Monroe Street on Manhattan

...k is the surface, the sup is concealed beneath. People like Gandy Brodie,{{refn|Known for sensuous figural paintings with paint applied in thick layers, [[

A note on my father.{{refn|{{NM}}’s hope that his father would stop gambling proved illusory. Barney

...ho keep saying in the good man there is bad, in the bad man there is good{{refn|This is “the minority within,” as critic Richard Poirier referred to th

...e sort of high-minded marriage where the mates hope to be able to confide{{refn|Mailer adds {{ins|fuck I die}} in the margin with an arrow pointing to “c

...ts, and all the freaks, cranks, coocoos and queers in the pages of Ellis.{{refn|[[w:Havelock Ellis|Havelock Ellis]] (1859-1939), a British doctor who wrote

...an’t destroy love. The one total impotence I had in my life was with R.P.{{refn|Unknown.}} shortly after I met Adele.{{LJ:Adele}} I was drawn to R, I found

...ial arena, how can one assume that the sperm itself should be unaffected.{{refn|{{NM}} restated this in ''[[The Prisoner of Sex]]'' (1971): “Good fucks m

...erely altering statistics. There have of course been writers like Malraux{{refn|French novelist and Minister of Culture under President de Gaulle, [[w:Andr

...essed, more unpredictable in their tiny wild actions (Herbert Aldendorff){{refn|A New York City psychoanalyst. Connection to {{NM}} unknown.}} and Bob gets