February 25, 2007 • 12:10 pm 0
I have been out of town (funerals, etc; bad business…)
If you want to read some of what has had me condemned as “possibly the most important writer of his generation” (People Magazine, January 14, 2005 issue) (and who doesn’t?), click here for a smattering of my work.
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November 13, 2006 • 11:57 pm 0
the Original “White Negro.”
I have been staring at this blank screen for two days, and this is all I have come up with:
In his oft-cited essay of the same name, “The White Negro,” Norman Mailer — several years before he tried to bite off Rip Torn’s ear — characterized the psychopath as someone who is “trying to create a new nervous system” for his or herself.
Generally we are obliged to act with a nervous system which has been formed from infancy, and which carries in the style of its circuits the very contradictions of our parents and our early milieu…. It is … not only the ‘dead weight of the institutions of the past’ but indeed the inefficient and often antiquated nervous circuits of the past which strangle our potentiality for responding to new possibilities.
(from “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster” (1957))
Filed under: Reading Is FUN-damental!, cool Jews, not strictly Myspace related, superficial reflections
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