2003-07-03
... ? Norman Mailer : The New York Review of Books: The White Man UnburdenedExeunt: lightning and thunder, shock and awe. Dust, ash, fog, fire, smoke, sand, blood, and a good deal of waste now move to the wings. The stage, however, remains occupied. The question posed at curtain-rise has not been answered. Why did we go to war? If no real weapons of mass destruction are found, the question will keen in pitch.Mailers still going strong...and long may he continue - I owe much of my love of US Lit (and, in turn, elements of the US itself) to my teenage discovery of a tatty copy of "Advertisements for Myself" in a Colchester used book store...
