Norman Mailer Dies
He'd have to be considered up there in the list of all time great American writers. I'm not saying anywhere as good as Vonnegut, but up there pretty close. I slogged through Harlot's Ghost several years ago and it's the only thing of his I've read. Probably not one of his best, although he should get some credit for just sheer volume.
A Norman Mailer quote about one of my favorite topics:
“One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.”
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