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{{dc|T}}{{start|oday, I discovered an interesting page}} perusing Wikipedia’s list of [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured Articles]] for [[Wikipedia:Featured articles#Literature and theatre|Literature and Theatre]]. “[[w:Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies|Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies]]” is an example of an article that {{NMS}} members could team-write for {{NM}}. This could solve the issue of the poorly written section of Mailer’s article, [[w:Norman Mailer#Recurring themes|recurring themes]] (ugh, it reads like a poorly sourced undergraduate essay), and give the society its first featured article. | {{dc|T}}{{start|oday, I discovered an interesting page}} perusing Wikipedia’s list of [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured Articles]] for [[Wikipedia:Featured articles#Literature and theatre|Literature and Theatre]]. “[[w:Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies|Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies]]” is an example of an article that {{NMS}} members could team-write for {{NM}}. This could solve the issue of the poorly written section of Mailer’s article, [[w:Norman Mailer#Recurring themes|recurring themes]] (ugh, it reads like a poorly sourced undergraduate essay), and give the society its first featured article. | ||
In a couple of weeks at the [[pm:Norman Mailer Society/Conference/2020|Society’s online conference]], I’m giving an update on the digital projects we’ve been up to. I think this will be an excellent call to action. I can see divvying-up the various themes for interested writers. What are those themes? Well we can start with these, with thanks from [[pm:Norman Mailer’s Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969|Mike Lennon]]: | |||
* a desire to grow at all costs; | * a desire to grow at all costs; | ||
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* a faith in courage as the cardinal virtue; | * a faith in courage as the cardinal virtue; | ||
* a fear and loathing for the incipient totalitarianism of American life; | * a fear and loathing for the incipient totalitarianism of American life; | ||
* an obsession with orgasm | |||
* a belief in an heroic but limited God locked in struggle with a powerful, wily Devil, conceivably with the fate of the universe in the balance. | * a belief in an heroic but limited God locked in struggle with a powerful, wily Devil, conceivably with the fate of the universe in the balance. | ||
* a belief in the heroic mission of the artist | |||
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Today, I discovered an interesting page perusing Wikipedia’s list of Featured Articles for Literature and Theatre. “Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies” is an example of an article that Norman Mailer Society members could team-write for Norman Mailer. This could solve the issue of the poorly written section of Mailer’s article, recurring themes (ugh, it reads like a poorly sourced undergraduate essay), and give the society its first featured article.
In a couple of weeks at the Society’s online conference, I’m giving an update on the digital projects we’ve been up to. I think this will be an excellent call to action. I can see divvying-up the various themes for interested writers. What are those themes? Well we can start with these, with thanks from Mike Lennon:
- a desire to grow at all costs;
- a distrust of pure reason and its products;
- a willingness to take risks;
- a trust in the authority of the senses;
- a faith in courage as the cardinal virtue;
- a fear and loathing for the incipient totalitarianism of American life;
- an obsession with orgasm
- a belief in an heroic but limited God locked in struggle with a powerful, wily Devil, conceivably with the fate of the universe in the balance.
- a belief in the heroic mission of the artist
. . .
