Posted on 11/10/2007 9:47:43 PM PST by saganite
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Bump for later saganite, it is unseemly to speak ill of the dead.
Did the search etc etc.
Not however to speak the truth about the dead.
Norman Mailer was not worthy of washing John Dos Passos' jockstrap.
We aren’t Democrats saganite, I prefer to think that Conservatives wait to speak the truth when someone has went to meet their Creator, there is nothing to gain by being ugly even if it is in quotation marks.
Sorry you’re offended but I don’t find anything redeeming in what he wrote. No quotation marks in my posts here by the way.
Mailer’s personal life was as turbulent as the times in which he lived. In 1960, at a party at his Brooklyn Heights home, he stabbed his second wife, Adele Morales, with a knife. She declined to press charges, and it was not until 1997 that she revealed in her memoir how close she had come to dying.
His other wives were: Beatrice Silverman, Lady Jeanne Campbell, Beverly Bentley, Carol Stevens and Norris Church.
His own quotations saganite, not yours, if you feel driven to look, check out the guy he whined to have paroled...
Look for Jack Abbot saganite, and Norman Mailer and see what you find..:(
He should have married Chuck Norris instead of Norris Church. Try stabbing Chuck!
I know the history there. Mailer got the guy paroled then he stabbed a waiter to death. Mailer was undoubtedly right though because he had good intentions. /s/
I rather like that he had rather admirable things to say about Texans.
I rather dislike that he had rather admirable things to say about Castro.
Convictions in life are rare things, those who have them are really blessed, those who do not, are constantly double minded...
Hitler had the strength of his convictions to guide him. So did Stalin and numerous other tyrants.
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I tried to read a couple of his books, but when the plot took a detour into homosexual acts by the protaganist as though it was akin to brushing one’s teeth, I gave up.
Regardless, RIP Norman.
Factoids like that are “why” things can become unseemly.
Mailer had a long and rich history of shall we say “Stuff like that”, to drag it out when he is freshly departed seems..well...like having a pep rally for Hillary at Mailer’s funeral..it’s something Democrats would do..not “us”.
Mailer was merely a confused writer, not Tyrant of an entire country don’t confuse political convictions with personal ones.
Can’t follow you so I’ll just let it go.
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