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...which is to say he perceives our writing problems from within our creative box rather than outside it; yes, on rereading ''After the Lost Generation'', it ...ds as a matter with a dowsing rod. I cannot forbear from giving a few fair examples:

{{Quote box|title=''Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixtie {{quote|But none of the obituary writers seemed to understand Mailer’s larger pro

{{Quote box|title=''The Castle in the Forest''|By [[Norman Mailer]]<br />New York: Rand ...it large. Maestro and ''Dummkopf'', Mailer’s metaphor for God, are but two examples. D.T. and Adolf ’s father occupy lesser but hardly insignificant orbits.

...reudian revisionist, messiah of the good orgasm and inventor of the orgone box had a reputation similar to that of Norman Mailer: to some a genius, to oth ...orman Mailer. Alfred Kazin said, “Everyone of my generation had his orgone box, his search for fulfillment.”{{sfn|Turner|2011|p=222}}

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...access to ''Lipton’s Journal'' at the time of their writing. To take a few examples: {{harvtxt|Werge|1972}} compares Mailer in ''Fire'' to an American traditio {{quote|Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its

{{quote|Films provide a hint of enjoyment through the fantasy scenarios they deploy {{quote|The subject comes into being as a form of attraction toward and defense aga

..., regenerative power through sex, violence, and power over others. Earlier examples are Sergius O’Shaungnessy (''The Deer Park''), Stephen Rojack (''An Ameri ...agine the field day Mailer’s most ardent critics would have had! Better to quote the New Testament for some sense of the gravity, mystery, and cadence of Je