To say this of my having trouble finding patriotsquestion91 is because Alan Miller the founder had put it simply to be “patriotsquestion9/11,” which confused me in my computer semi-literacy. I could have met Mailer with much idiotic hassle, when he was in glory carrying on without safety with UT studants, I did meet Ginsberg, did meet Kesey, did know Burroughs, corresponded with Burroughs’s secretary Grauerholz, wish I’d met Bukowlski, should have known Kerouac.  Trouble now is nobody alive has US leverage to tell the US what Europe/Asia/Africa know, 9/11 is inside.  God does not like the US of A best.

In the sixties I had slight correspondence with Mailer then lost his address. Because I could tell where he was, I had got his attention in my twenties.  He was this intellectual fellow with shortness complex who in fistfighting could not punch too well and wished to be larger. Too bad his physical damage had caught up to him, because he could have been the needed voice on the 9/11 coverup.  Currently, the best stuff I have seen is patriotsquestion9/11.com/media, and it is now not simple to get this grand site. I do find it though by doing google search on Lt.Col.Karen Kwiatkowski, PhD, US Airforce.  But wish we had a Mailer or Kesey or Bukowlski.

Norman - your voice may be gone but your insight and writing will remain with us. You are missed.

No, he wasn’t “one of America’s most unique voices”, because the phrase is meaningless; “unique” (Latin for “one-of-a-kind”) is an absolute. It cannot be qualified (“very one-of-a-kind” is obviously just plain silly). Therefore America does not have a number of “most unique” voices, although there may well be voices which are, individually, “one-of-a-kind”. Still less do voices exist that are “most” unique. Again, unique is an absolute and cannot be qualified (as in the pernicious, creeping usage, “very unique”). I am reminded of a deliciously entertaining rant on this very subject by Martin Sheen’s President Bartlett in “West Wing”. The reason my rant is apropos, of course, is that Mailer, being a very great writer, would have spotted your error immediately.