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I believe Mary looked on me as a “womanizer.” It is a word I dislike, a prim, stuffy, frightened, middle-class word, and it demeans women. What it means to the people who use it is inaccurate in my case. I have been with a number of women outside my marriages. That number has been exaggerated. Was …

One weekend during a gathering of intellectuals for political deliberation, Art did something his wife Mary thought he should not have done. Considering the boredom that hangs like a fog over these events, perhaps his wife might have excused his “sin.” But he told me Mary was unyielding. What aston…

The avalanche of praise and the absolute nature of the respect Art received everywhere had another result. He’s still a companionable and amusing man when you’re alone with him, but it began to develop and to be noticed that when he was in his public-behavior, on-view phase, he sounded a bit pompou…

THE PERSON most affected by the success of Death of a Salesman was the author. It did fine things for him, altering his life in more ways than he realized then or perhaps—excuse the presumption—knows now. Nothing was the same for him after that play opened in New York. It even made Art reckless—alb…

The vectoralist class wages an intensive struggle to dispossess hackers of their intellectual property. Patents and copyrights all end up in the hands, not of their creators, but of a vectoralist class that owns the means of realizing the value of these abstractions. The vectoralist class struggles…