I think it was Tru who also said about Mailer:
[in Capote nasal poofter voice with withering facial expression]"That's not writing--that's typing."
Posted on 10/17/2007 9:02:12 AM PDT by Borges
Writer and journalist Norman Mailer has been hospitalised here with acute respiratory problems, The New York Post reported today.
'He's not in very good shape. It's breaking my heart,” one of his former wives, Carol Mailer, was quoted in the Post as saying.
The writer was reported to be at an intensive care unit at Mount Sinai Hospital.
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“He has no talent. None, none, none!” —Truman Capote
He had six wives. Of course, he only actually stabbed one of them, and she didn’t die, which means he was a failure as a violent man, even as he idealized the violent man with his pen (Gary Gilmore, for example), unlike his fellow writer Jack Abbott who was a former jailbird, Mailer was yet a successful murderer having never stabbed someone to death, like his pal Jack Abbott did to a waiter over a dispute about the bathroom. Admittedly, Abbott had stabbed a man before and failed to kill him. So perhaps if Mailer lives long enough he too could successfully stab someone to death, like his pal Jack Abbott.
Good he's probably going to spend a lot of time with them.
I think it was Tru who also said about Mailer:
[in Capote nasal poofter voice with withering facial expression]"That's not writing--that's typing."
William F. Buckley sends his condolences. /sarc
Man, Mailer is a piece of work. He was married six times. He stabbed his second wife. He helped free a convicted murderer, who upon being released, took the opportunity to murder someone else.
I do hope the guy makes peace with the Creator.
I tried reading one of his books once — boring as all heck. Never tried any others.
But that said, prayers for him and his loved ones.
“That’s not writing—that’s typing.”
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LOL. Thanks for sharing that one.
Capote, for all of his faults, did a heckuva job with In Cold Blood. One of my favorite books.
>>respiratory problems
Laura Ingraham was playing a clip of him awhile back
and it sounded like he was ready to cough up a lung. When
Laura herself had a bit of a cold, the board operator
would play it in the background to kind of make fun of her
froggy voice.
Saw an interview with this fellow on public television. His opinion was that abortion was a type of murder, but if any type of murder was to be condoned, it should be abortion.
Norman Mailer is alive? Who knew?
Mailer wrote a poem about stabbing his wife:
So long as you
Use a knife,
There’s still some love left.
I have no comment.
Norman Mailer Arrested in Stabbing of Wife at a Party
November 22, 1960
Norman Mailer, the writer, was arrested last night and accused of stabbing his wife, Adele. Mrs. Mailer, 37 years old, was in critical condition last night at University Hospital, Second Avenue and Twentieth Street.
She was taken to the hospital at 8 o’clock Sunday morning with stab wounds in the abdomen and back. She apparently rode there in a private car.
According to the police of the West 100th Street station, where the 37-year-old writer was being held, Mrs. Mailer told physicians at the hospital that she had fallen on glass in her apartment at 250 West 94th Street. The physicians were suspicious and notified the police.
Mr. Mailer was also arrested a week ago on a disorderly conduct charge after an argument over a $7.60 bill at the Birdland nightclub.
Wound Near Heart
When detectives went to question his wife Sunday at the hospital, they were told she was too ill to be questioned. One would was said to be near her heart.
Last night, the hospital permitted the police to question her. They said she admitted with reluctance that her husband had stabbed her.
She said the stabbing occurred about 5 A.M. Sunday at a party at their apartment.
Mrs. Mailer told the police she could give no reason for the stabbing.
She said her husband suddenly walked up to her, looked at her, stabbed her with what she thought was a penknife or clasp knife, and left the apartment.
Mrs. Mailer said her husband later took her to the hospital.
The detectives learned that Mr. Mailer planned to visit his wife at the hospital last night. At 10:30 when he arrived, he was arrested.
Mr. Mailer has denied the accusation, according to Deputy Inspector John L. Kinsella.
The author came to public attention after World War II with “The Naked and the Dead,” a novel of warfare in the South Pacific. It achieved critical acclaim and was a best-seller.
Last week, when the Citizens Emergency Committee met to draft a petition to Governor Rockefeller for an investigation of the city’s Police Department, he was among the writers and editors who attended.
A week ago the writer was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct after he was refused credit for his bill at Birdland. He assertedly tried to pay his bill with a credit card, although the law prohibits the purchase of liquor on credit.
He was paroled for a hearing today in Magistrate’s Court.
Last summer in Provincetown, Mass., he was involved in a dispute with two policemen and was jailed. The author represented himself at the trial and was acquitted.
I thought he lived in England? Why not use their vaunted National Health Service?
Nope — that Capote slap was about Kerouac.
I found a bunch of old LIFE magazines the other week, dated from 1968-1970. One had Mailer on the cover. Like every LIFE cover when it came in the mail, I remembered seeing it when I was 6 or 7 years old. It was my first impression of the old guy.
Looking at the picture, I thought to myself he looked then to be about my age now. I just checked. He was.
Nietzsche - “God is dead”
God - “Nietzsche is dead”
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One may not like the conclusions Nietzsche draws, but the context from which the shopworn little joke you relate above is quite similar to social critique made by many freepers. God is dead because man has put himself above God. Sounds very like something one might read on FR’s religion forum.
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