1968 Writers and Editors War Tax Protest

[David Casseres]

I'd run from Mailer.

"O, he is as tedious
As a tired horse, a railing wife;
Worse than a smoky house: I had rather live
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
Than feed on cates and have him talk to me
In any summer-house in Christendom."
-- Henry IV, Act III, scene 1

On 4/19/06, jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
> However a lot of people do seem to let it go at "recluse"...  maybe
> not serious fans.  Personally hearing stories about him jumping out a
> second story window and running away from, who was it, Norman Mailer?
> makes me enjoy his books all the more... because I already liked the
> books and it gives me the impression that the author is in  fact as
> cool as his books.  I get the feeling that if he stumbled across all
> this though, he'd feel pretty weird and not like it very much.
> Whereas someone like Gaddis stayed out of the spotlight to kind of
> make a point, Pynchon seems to have done it out of paranoid leanings,
> at least to start.  Though I might run from Mailer too.
>
> On 4/19/06, Carlos Ferrão <carlosferrao at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The more he hides, the more we want to know. I realise he doesn't do it for
> > self-promotion but if he was, for instance, living a well documented
> > "normal" life then people wouldn't care so much.
>
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