Obit: Norman Mailer (Nov 2007)

Subject: Obit: Norman Mailer
From: number 6
Date: 10 Nov 07 - 06:09 PM

He will be missed.

biLL

Subject: RE: Obit: Norman Mailer
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Nov 07 - 11:04 PM

They have often said that women didn't like Norman Mailer. For the record, here is one who did. I liked his honesty, his search for what he believed to be truth.

Aw

Subject: RE: Obit: Norman Mailer (Nov 2007)
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 12:43 AM

Love him or hate him, doesn't matter. He had a part to play in the 20th century and he played it well.

I don't think it is in his nature to rest in peace.........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Obit: Norman Mailer (Nov 2007)
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 12:52 AM

I think you're right, Spaw. Very soon he will be busy writing an expose!

Subject: RE: Obit: Norman Mailer (Nov 2007)
From: bobad
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 07:27 AM

The obit linked by Ebbie states that Mailer invented the word "fug" in 1948 which I have always believed to be the case but according to the Urban Dictionary it was used by Steinbeck in 1945:

"Doc, that's a fuggin' lie," Mac said.
-- John Steinbeck, "Cannery Row" (1945)

The actress Tallulah Bankhead claimed she met Mailer at a party and said, "So, you're the guy who doesn't know how to spell fuck." (The story is sometimes told with Dorothy Parker as the speaker.) Mailer told an interviewer he never met Tallulah Bankhead, and in any case he knew how to spell four-letter words--the euphemism was used in order not to offend the sensibilities of readers in 1947.

In any case, you had a fuggin' good ride on the spaceship earth, Norman - RIP.

Subject: RE: Obit: Norman Mailer (Nov 2007)
From: gnu
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 07:28 AM

Well, and missed, indeed.

Subject: RE: Obit: Norman Mailer (Nov 2007)
From: number 6
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 12:30 PM

Thanks for that tidbit of info bobad ... being an old fan of the Fugs from way back I found it interesting.

gnu ... he will be missed, the world needs more guys like Mailer.

We were down on Cape Cod this past October ... just had to drive up to P. Town to see his house.

biLL

Subject: RE: Obit: Norman Mailer (Nov 2007)
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 12:58 PM

A great and significant atheist.

If only he had found Jesus, his mind could have been closed, clouded and freed by a single book. Then he would have never written at all.

Subject: RE: Obit: Norman Mailer (Nov 2007)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 02:33 PM

I particularly enjoyd "The Executioner's Song" "Toughh Guys Don't Dance" and "The Fight" RIP Mr. M.

Subject: RE: Obit: Norman Mailer (Nov 2007)
From: bubblyrat
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 02:46 PM

Saw an interview, from some years back, with him on British TV, screened today, November 11th, and was once again impressed by his appreciation of all things aesthetic and beautiful.We shall not see his like again.Safe Journey to Wherever, Norman ....RIP.