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Idiocy Watch: Special Norman Mailer Edition
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| 11/20/01
Posted on 11/20/2001 1:23:26 PM PST by denydenydeny
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Mailer has always loved murderers.
To: denydenydeny
Yep. He even helped get a murderer a reduced sentence - enabling that murderer to kill again, I believe.
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posted on
11/20/2001 1:26:26 PM PST
by
wideawake
To: denydenydeny
Maybe he can rewrite "The Naked and the Dead" as a description of the defeated Taliban. ;^)
To: denydenydeny
The combination of too many drugs and too much boxing to show that you're tough is not a happy one. That first novel was promising, although it does not stand up as well as the critics thought it would, but it's definitely been down hill ever since -- all promise, celebrity, and no work product.
To: denydenydeny
There's nothing more cowardly than an "intellectual" working in service to thugs. His hidden message is this: "please don't kill me, I'm on your side, and I'll say anything to prove it". His nose is so caked in brown that he has to breath with his mouth open.
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posted on
11/20/2001 1:36:41 PM PST
by
samtheman
To: denydenydeny
"The WTC was not just an architectural monstrosity, but also terrible for people who didn't work there, for it said to all those people: 'If you can't work up here, boy, you're out of it.'"
A "dick thing" indeed. Apparently the twin towers made little Norman feel all, well, inadequate. The man is as flaccid as his prose.
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posted on
11/20/2001 1:36:59 PM PST
by
Asclepius
To: Asclepius
Dear Norm, take two Viagra and call us in the morning.
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posted on
11/20/2001 1:40:17 PM PST
by
breakem
To: denydenydeny
Wow, thanks Norman! Your superior intellect has once again pointed out to us proles the real truth behind the veil of our simple reality. How I wish I had your powers of perception, asswipe!
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posted on
11/20/2001 1:43:19 PM PST
by
Jhensy
To: denydenydeny
In addition to the myriad other ways in which he is an idiot, he's also a poor and delusional architectural critic.
The World Trade Center towers were gorgeous buildings. In addition, they didn't hurl insults on the downtrodden masses. They were inanimate.
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posted on
11/20/2001 1:43:24 PM PST
by
dead
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To: denydenydeny
"Americans can't admit that you need courage to do such a thing. Whose courage, what courage? These cowardly lowlife dirtbags smuggled razor blades onto a commercial aircraft, fully expecting no resistance from the unarmed civilian passengers. Mr. Mailer please note: the same courage that you find in a man who beats his wife to death and then eats the end of his own shotgun.
True courage was manifested by the passengers of Flight 93.
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posted on
11/20/2001 1:48:07 PM PST
by
Alouette
To: AmericanVictory
That first novel was promising, although it does not stand up as well as the critics thought it would, but it's definitely been down hill ever since . . Nay. Armies of the Night and Miami and the Siege of Chicago were far superior to NATD.
That Mailer has several Spaniards in his brainworks was ALWAYS obvious to friends, foes, and Mailer himself; the problem is he has always chosen to display the Spaniards, FULL FRONTAL!
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posted on
11/20/2001 1:52:52 PM PST
by
alcuin
To: denydenydeny
Mailer has always loved murderers.And he stabbed one of his wives a few times too, several years back.
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posted on
11/20/2001 1:55:59 PM PST
by
veronica
To: veronica
Yep, he's a p.o.s. I suppose this is why Ray Bradbury bad-mouthed him awhile back. Made me love Ray even more...
To: alcuin
But they were not novels, for one thing. And while they were well written he was completely wrong about the Viet Nam War and played the role of the ideal communist directed useful idiot, just as Ho Chi Minh intended in taking a leaf from his master Mao. See the wonderful summary of Ho's skill in this regard in J.J. Servan Schreiber's "The American Challenge."
To: denydenydeny
Why be surprised to learn that the modern liberal is a violent thug?
The evidence is everwhere.
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posted on
11/20/2001 2:01:37 PM PST
by
moyden
To: wideawake
Yes--Jack Henry Abbot was the name of the murderer that Mailer screamed and agitated about and got released from prison early. A few months later a waiter in a NY restaurant did something to him that he did not like and JHA killed him--stabbed him I think. Mailer was unapologetic.
To me, mailer has always seemed like a guy who thought that other people would not think of him as manly because he was a writer, so he had to do all this posturing. Yes, he can write; but so what? X42 was charming, wasn't he? At the end of the day it is character that counts and Mailer lacks same.
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posted on
11/20/2001 2:05:44 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
Mailer shares with Truman Capote and Gore Vidal a strange attraction to jailbirds and felons.
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posted on
11/20/2001 2:32:56 PM PST
by
veronica
To: Pharmboy
You have hit on something here. I always thought that Mailer was probably homosexual, and put on this super-macho image to cover it up, as well as to impress the girly-men (and manly-girls) he lives and works among.
It impresses the Al Hunt types, but he never managed to convince me. Too bad Jack Henry Abbott didn't get Mailer, instead of an innocent bystander! Talk about irony...
To: AmericanVictory
But they were not novels, for one thing. I assumed the "downhill" was all-inclusive; re his novels, he's never written one that IMneverHO caught "The Bitch" (as he has called a great novel), and I include NATD.
I'm sure he's been used as a dupe from time to time, and he's played the fool, intentionally and with relish (Advertisements for Myself, et al), and he's meddled with certain lives in such a way as to cause great unhappiness. All too true.
Art. Go figger.
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posted on
11/20/2001 2:41:50 PM PST
by
alcuin
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