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Letters to Mike Lennon (30 January 1972, 7 October 1974). Excerpts reprinted in J. Michael Lennon’s essay, “Mailer’s Cosmology,” Modern Language Studies, 12 (summer), 18–29. Mailer’s comments deal with his cosmology, “obviously the most ticklish, dense, incomprehensible and for most readers perverted part of my thicket,” and “the difficulty in comprehending the authority of the senses,” respectively. Rpt: Critical Essays on Norman Mailer, edited by J. Michael Lennon. Boston: G.K. Hall, December 1986, 14.3. See 59.2, 75.2, 75.11, 83.45, 89.11.