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'''By: [[Norman Mailer]]''' | '''By: [[Norman Mailer]]'''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mailer |first1=Norman |date=2013 |title=Love Buds |url= |journal=Mailer Review |volume=7 |issue= |pages=10–22 |doi= |access-date= }}</ref> | ||
{{quote box |"Love-Buds", a short story, was written in Mailer's senior year at Harvard (1942–43) and it was never published. A transcription of the story follows the images. The Norman Mailer estate has graciously given permission to reprint the story. [[13.3|Images]] are courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. |author=Phillip Sipiora}} | {{quote box |"Love-Buds", a short story, was written in Mailer's senior year at Harvard (1942–43) and it was never published. A transcription of the story follows the images. The Norman Mailer estate has graciously given permission to reprint the story. [[13.3|Images]] are courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. |author=Phillip Sipiora}} | ||
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What a relief! They hugged one another, they jumped up and down on the city street beneath the light of a street lamp, and roared with laughter at themselves and at each other. Soon, they were busy describing the thundering details of incapacity, each trying to defeat the other in the enormity of his failure. They laughed until they were weak, sensing the balm of such laughter, applying it in broad sweeps of unguent. As they walked back to their room, they swore with profound seriousness that never, never, would they tell on one another. | What a relief! They hugged one another, they jumped up and down on the city street beneath the light of a street lamp, and roared with laughter at themselves and at each other. Soon, they were busy describing the thundering details of incapacity, each trying to defeat the other in the enormity of his failure. They laughed until they were weak, sensing the balm of such laughter, applying it in broad sweeps of unguent. As they walked back to their room, they swore with profound seriousness that never, never, would they tell on one another. | ||
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