Mailer on the Eve of Ancient Evenings: A Memory in Six Parts (Tributes) (Norman Mailer) (In Memoriam‪)‬

1 LATER, I REALIZED THAT I HAD MET A MAN LIVING IN THE HUSHES, as Emily Dickinson put it, "between the Heaves of Storm." One heave was the ten years spent writing his intended masterpiece, the other was the impending reception of that book. I was but one more distraction for an already distracted and aimless man in the still trough of those heaves.