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when there's something false about the scene

Interviewer: In writing your novels, has any particular formal problem given you trouble— let's say a problem of joining two parts of a narrative together, getting people from point A to point B?

Mailer: You mean like getting them out of a room? I think formal problems exist in inverse proport…

—p.267 Writers at Work: Volume 3 NORMAN MAILER (251) by Norman Mailer
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when there's something false about the scene

Interviewer: In writing your novels, has any particular formal problem given you trouble— let's say a problem of joining two parts of a narrative together, getting people from point A to point B?

Mailer: You mean like getting them out of a room? I think formal problems exist in inverse proport…

—p.267 NORMAN MAILER (251) by Norman Mailer
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velleity

I think good style is a matter of rendering out of oneself all the cupidities, all the cripplings, all the velleities.

—p.266 NORMAN MAILER (251) by Norman Mailer
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velleity

I think good style is a matter of rendering out of oneself all the cupidities, all the cripplings, all the velleities.

—p.266 NORMAN MAILER (251) by Norman Mailer
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