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Mailer is properly denounced by philosophical taxonomists as a soilpsist__a man for whom reality is confined to himself and his own experience. Still it is a relief__sort of a half way house to the proper blend of the individual and tradition __ to read a novel in which the protagonist doesn't depend for his salvation on life rafts coast out into the sea of Hope by Marx. Freud, or U Thant. | Mailer is properly denounced by philosophical taxonomists as a soilpsist__a man for whom reality is confined to himself and his own experience. Still it is a relief__sort of a half way house to the proper blend of the individual and tradition __ to read a novel in which the protagonist doesn't depend for his salvation on life rafts coast out into the sea of Hope by Marx. Freud, or U Thant. | ||
I confess that Mailer's tours through the nightspots of hell are not my idea of recreation, even with pad and pencil in hand to jot down what one has Learned about. Things, I do not enjoy spelunking in human depravity, nor do I wish my machine around to tape-record the emunctory noise of psychic or physical human excesses. Even so, there is | I confess that Mailer's tours through the nightspots of hell are not my idea of recreation, even with pad and pencil in hand to jot down what one has Learned about. Things, I do not enjoy spelunking in human depravity, nor do I wish my machine around to tape-record the emunctory noise of psychic or physical human excesses. Even so, there is hope in Norman Mailer's]] turbulent motions. | ||
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