I think we keep ourselves writing by allowing the core of our vanity never to be scratched if we can help it …… we’re here to change the American obsessions—those black holes in space—into mantras that we can live with.… you brought life back to a place in our imagination that has been surviving all these years like scorched earth …

—Norman Mailer to Don Delillo (25 August 1988)

I think we keep ourselves writing by allowing the core of our vanity never to be scratched if we can help it …
… we’re here to change the American obsessions—those black holes in space—into mantras that we can live with.
… you brought life back to a place in our imagination that has been surviving all these years like scorched earth …

—Norman Mailer to Don Delillo (25 August 1988)

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6 months ago

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    Norman Mailer bowing down to Don DeLillo
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    —Norman Mailer to Don Delillo (25 August 1988)
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