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Article: Mailer on the eve of Ancient Evenings: a memory in six parts.(TRIBUTES)(Norman Mailer)(In memoriam)
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- The Mailer Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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LATER, I REALIZED THAT I HAD MET A MAN LIVING IN THE HUSHES, as Emily Dickinson put it, "between the Heaves of Storm." One heave was the ten years spent writing his intended masterpiece, the other was the impending reception of that book. I was but one more distraction for an already distracted and aimless man in the still trough of those heaves.
"For the first time in my life," he said as we began talking, "I understand the feelings of people who've been working all their lives, but at the age of sixty or sixty-five, there they are sitting on a couch or walking around and their wife or husband says, "Relax, darling. Relax!"
Had some ...