Don't be put off by the wry, if graying, winsomeness. It's still the same old strutting cock-of-the-walk Norman Mailer, the old prose popinjay himself, who gave us lines like:

"I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential."

And:

"I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered."

If the Deity has the same whimsical sense of humor in the afterlife which is so apparent on earth, surely we will get to observe Mailer, Camille Paglia, and Joyce Carol Oates thrown together as a heavenly ménage à trois for all eternity. They truly deserve to get to know each other better. A lot better.

Back to Millennial Culture-at-a-glance

Magellan's Log VI

Magellan's Log front page