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Word: floater (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rojack (like Mailer?) knows so many worlds that he is never an insider. Rojack is in limbo, always a familiar face, always tuned in on the less guarded secrets, but always a floater on the periphery, always a nose pressed against the glass. This is Rojack (and Mailer his shadow), much too hip to swing with the squares, but too close to power to call himself an outcast; doomed to a netherworld of liberal intellectuals, never in the back rooms with Mr. Big nor safe on a midnight street in Harlem...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Mailer's Violent Dream: Murder, Sex, Madness | 4/15/1965 | See Source »

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