Re: rite at the end
Reg
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Hey, don't make me post Rip & Norm again!Anyway, the song is great and I love it! I always found Mailer to be a very insightful writer and I really have enjoyed some of his books. The Gospel According to the Son was the last one that really grabbed me but I am curious a bit about reading The Castle in the Forest even though it seems to get a mixed response. That Rip Torn fight is from a movie Mailer shot and you know he always seemed to me to be sort of an actor. He crawls inside the characters he writes about the same way a guy like Penn gets inside the ones he plays. I think there are some tricks...illusions...that writers can use to create certain feelings and people and I think Mailer is one of the magicians worth studying. I loved Hunter when I was in High School. At that point he was exactly what I needed. As time wore on he made me giggle but I never felt the power of his words the same way again. I still like Hunter and he was one of a kind but somehow (I never met him) I'm not surprised you found him a let down. I guess I prefer to keep him in the glass jar with the firefly...sort of glad I never crossed paths with him. When I read Hunter now I remember people and places...like hearing a song that reminds you of a girl...and it's bittersweet, you know. Two of my very good friends from that time frame died in very unusual ways and both in other countries and there are ghosts there I no longer wish to visit.
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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Hey, don't make me post Rip & Norm again!Anyway, the song is great and I love it! I always found Mailer to be a very insightful writer and I really have enjoyed some of his books. The Gospel According to the Son was the last one that really grabbed me but I am curious a bit about reading The Castle in the Forest even though it seems to get a mixed response. That Rip Torn fight is from a movie Mailer shot and you know he always seemed to me to be sort of an actor. He crawls inside the characters he writes about the same way a guy like Penn gets inside the ones he plays. I think there are some tricks...illusions...that writers can use to create certain feelings and people and I think Mailer is one of the magicians worth studying. I loved Hunter when I was in High School. At that point he was exactly what I needed. As time wore on he made me giggle but I never felt the power of his words the same way again. I still like Hunter and he was one of a kind but somehow (I never met him) I'm not surprised you found him a let down. I guess I prefer to keep him in the glass jar with the firefly...sort of glad I never crossed paths with him. When I read Hunter now I remember people and places...like hearing a song that reminds you of a girl...and it's bittersweet, you know. Two of my very good friends from that time frame died in very unusual ways and both in other countries and there are ghosts there I no longer wish to visit.
–--
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
