The Mailer Review/Volume 1, 2007/The Naked and the Dead (Play Excerpt): Difference between revisions

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{{hatnote|Editor’s Note: Following is a scene (Act 3, scene 3) from the play, never before published, that Mailer wrote from August 31 to September 14, 1942, in Boston. The manuscript of this play is in the Mailer Papers in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas in Austin. Mr. Mailer has generously granted permission to publish this scene, and the assistance of the Ransom Center staff is gratefully acknowledged. “[[Boston State Hospital: The Summer of 1942]]” by the late Robert F. Lucid, which appears in this number of the Review, details the circumstances of composition and deftly summarizes the preceding action. The only changes made to the original text, which Mailer typed himself, are the corrections of typographical errors and two brief, bracketed, explanatory interpolations.}}