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...book Of a Fire on the Moon, ostensibly about the Apollo 11 moon shot, Norman Mailer was really writing about Wasps (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants). Or so he indicated during an interview with Leticia Kent, published in the current Vogue. Hymenopterist 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...
...balance by staying out of the magnetic attraction of a world-renowned intellectual presence. How many times have Harvard students walked through the streets around Harvard Square without seeing such figures as James Baldwin, J.K. Galbraith, Eric Erikson, Edmund Wilson, James Dickey, Robert P. Warren, Norman Mailer, to name only those whom I have personally seen. These men seem to belong in the Cambridge setting, even if in many cases they visit Harvard only as guest lecturers. It would be impolite to be too impressed by their presence, just as it would also be dangerous to the self...
...parking meter. He was wearing his slide rule strapped to his belt as usual, but he was carrying a camera, and a sketchbook, and under his arm he had a manuscript. "Fuck," said Fred, "I've been considering my future. I've had a thought or two about Norman Mailer. I too would choose to write for Life at a million bucks than have to job hunt in Seattle as an aeronautical engineer...
...FIRE ON THE MOON by Norman Mailer. 472 pages. Little, Brown...
Scorpio had been brooding about his much abused deviated septum when a copy of Norman Mailer's Of a Fire on the Moon arrived. It was a confrontation that would measure the dimensions of his dread. To begin with, Mailer, born Jan. 31, 1923, called himself Aquarius throughout the book. But there were other things to cause one to worry. Although Scorpio shared Aquarius' tendencies toward water displacement, there were incompatibilities. Aquarians were eccentric and extremely difficult to judge. Uranus had bestowed on them the gift of radical vision and strong impulses to alter the status...