Parody
Parody "Why do we need all this reaffirmation? It's as if we're a three hundred pound man who's seven feet tall, superbly shaped, absolutely powerful, and every three minutes he's got to reaffirm...
...One thing I have always admired about Saddam Hussein is he is a funny-smelling man...
...T]he 3,000 deaths in the Twin Towers came approximately to one mortality for every 90,000 Americans...
...When I met him, I forget whether it was in Vietnam or at a dinner party at my publisher's house, Che Guevara told me that kissing dogs while watching golf is like singing : the "Marseillaise" after firing the • carburetor...
...It's like Maine...
...I detest this totally promiscuous patriotism...
...If you eat to° much ice cream, you secrete serotonin, which leads to belligerence...
...The United States is a seven-foot-tan mm, powerfully built, and often in bathing trunks, of course, since the country touches the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Pacific on the other...
...to advertising industry is its adrenal glands...
...Norman Mailer, The Sunday Times (London), September 8, 2002 MAILER: REFLECTIONS ON HISTORY AND WAR (continued from p. 40) transformed into antelope sperm...
...Absolutely hates the water...
...Iraq is the same way...
...Ugly...
...The lymphatic gtote of warmongering run through Madison Avenue and Hollywood and they make a smell when you're scaredPortugal loves those swim trunks because Portugal is like a lovely dancer, a little past her prime and running to flab kind of but who always knows how to please a man...
...It's as if we're a three hundred pound man who's seven feet tall, superbly shaped, absolutely powerful, and every three minutes he's got to reaffirm the fact that his arm pits have a wonderful odour...
...When 1 thought of this it changed my sex life forever...
...Americans are scared to think about these things because they're all homosexuals...
...We seem perfectly ready to put up with automobile statistics...
...Your chances of dying if you drive a car are one in 7,000 each year...
...His swim trunks (see MAILER: ESCHATOLOGICAL MEDITATIONS, p. 42...
...Why doesn't the country just end at the New Hampshire border...
...Patrice Lumumba once told me that, and it changed my sex life forever Not that I take back what 1 said about Jack Kennedy and whipped cream...
...Culturally, emotionally America is growing more loutish, arrogant, and vain...
...America ought to wake up and examine its narcissism and its misplaced cathexis...
...Why does the state of Maine jut out into the Atlantic...
...It misplaced them in a tight pair of swim trunks while swimming in the Pacific...
...Wave a little flag and become a good person...
...That changed my sex life forever...
Vol. 8 • September 2002 • No. 2
