Speaking of which, this column, by Johann Hari, 'Why do we ignore the
abuse of women?,' is pertinent:
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/johann_hari/
article3160616.ece
Doug
On 15-Nov-07, at 9:42 AM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
> Douglas Barbour wrote:
>> What I liked the first time & still, Ken, is that you catch how it
>> was nothing more than 'reality, sort of.'
>>
>> As good a memorial as any for the man....
>
> What I hope I "got" was the aura of danger the man projected. Someone
> once wrote that Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas carried a sense
> they'd kill you if they were provoked. Mailer came with the same
> sense of danger. The fact he'd already attacked one of his wives with
> a knife added to the (ahem) mystique.
>
> Ken
>
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> Kenneth Wolman
>
> "I agree with the Chekhov character who, when in a crisis, he is
> reminded that 'this, too, shall pass,' responds 'Nothing
> passes.'"--Philip Roth
>
>
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