Norman Mailer: A Castle in the Forest

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Norman Mailer: A Castle in the Forest

On Sale: January 23, 2007

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You may call me D.T. That is short for Dieter, a German name, and D.T.
will do, now that I am in America, this curious nation. If I draw upon
reserves of patience, it is because time passes here without meaning
for me, and that is a state to dispose one to rebellion. Can this be
why I am writing a book? Among my former associates, we had to swear
never to undertake such an action. I was, after all, a member of a
matchless Intelligence group. Its classification was SS, Special
Section IV-2a, and we were directly under the supervision of Heinrich
Himmler. Today, the man is seen as a monster, and I would not look to
defend him—he turned out to be one hell of a monster. All the same,
Himmler did have an original mind, and one of his theses does take me
into my literary intentions, which are, I promise, not routine.
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