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Of a Fire on the Moon, and wandered out from his studio on this sunny afternoon to witness the strange religious ceremony that he wrote about in the | Of a Fire on the Moon, and wandered out from his studio on this sunny afternoon to witness the strange religious ceremony that he wrote about in the | ||
chapter titled “Burial by the Sea.” | chapter titled “Burial by the Sea.” | ||
The Colony was born on the occasion of Norman’s death. Four months | |||
earlier Schiller was visiting and sitting in Mailer’s dining room. Norman looked up at him and noted, “I’m prepared to die, Larry. I won’t be alive by | |||
the end of this year.” Schiller found élan in the example of Mailer’s wild ride | |||
through life, meeting ambitious challenges or failing so completely as to succeed artistically. Mailer’s failures were akin to those Joyce spoke about: “A | |||
man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” | |||