Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/589
Energy spent on solving one problem opens us to the easy solution of other problems. So the sticky heavy depressed love relation of Dan[1] and Rhoda[2] is very important, for if they can ever solve that they will able to slove (solve and slovenly) a hundred other things.
notes
- ↑ A close friend of Mailer’s in the 1950s, Daniel Wolf (1915 – 1996), the co-founder of the Village Voice, introduced Mailer to his second wife, Adele Morales.
- ↑ Lifelong friend of Mailer’s sister Barbara, Rhoda Lazare (b. 1926) was introduced to her husband, Daniel Wolf, by Mailer.