The Spooky Art by Norman Mailer

Author:Norman Mailer [Mailer, Norman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Writing, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Art
ISBN: 9781588362865
Google: cbLMxZDL-sgC
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Goodreads: 11253203
Publisher: Random House LLC
Published: 2003-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

MISCELLANY:

PORNOGRAPHY, PICASSO,

AND APHORISMS

I can see some reasonably deep moral questions about whether people should be free to create hard-core pornography. I’d vote yes, but let’s not assume no damage is taking place. For some, it would be a curse; to others, a perverse blessing. But you could be playing with your soul. Let’s say the moral shadings are not without their parallel to men doing their best to take each other out in the ring while other men and women cheer them on. Note that I put it this way even though boxing is my favorite sport to watch.

You can tell a lot about every stage of sex—before, during, and after—by odor. One is often aware of one’s own spiritual condition through one’s scent. Just so, as one enters a house, one knows the happiness or the misery of its people by the smell one encounters. This faculty, therefore, can become unendurable at times. You walk in on old friends and realize that something’s going to go bust with them—not yet, maybe, but it’s there, maybe a month or two away, a year or two away. The odor speaks unmistakably of stale miseries that will yet exact their payment. Or, at least, all this was true in the years when I still had a vivid sense of smell.

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