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...deliberately misrepresents her four main male targets: Henry Miller, D.H. Lawrence, Jean Genèt and himself. He accuses her of judging Miller by contemporary standards, and not as a "wandering troubador of the Twenties," when "one followed the line of one's sexual impulse without a backward look at what was moral, responsible or remotely desirable for society." Millett's "critical misdemeanor" with Lawrence is treating him out of sequence "to conceal the pilgrimage, hide the life, cover over that emotional odyssey which took him from adoration of the woman to outright lust for her murder, then...
...Mailer, who has called Wasps "the most Faustian, barbaric, draconian, progress-oriented and root-destroying people on earth," has moved on to "some mysterious and half-spooky conclusions," notably that "the real mission of the Wasp in history was not, say, to create capitalism, or to disseminate Christianity into backward countries." It was to get the U.S. to the moon...
...running any more, and if he has promises to keep they are to himself. In this first collection of poems, the hawks finally lie down with the doves to make room for the aardvark and the heron. But in the process the ex-candidate's lines show off backward glances, once and future visions, and a loner's sigh of relief...
...Backward, turn backward...
...only exception: Uranus, whose backward rotation is an astronomical mystery...