lovely henny surety, the hensureness which is the real bliss of every
female, has been denied her: she never had it.. . . Nothingness! ”
sun and the earth, the moon and the fixed stars and the planets, in the
rhythm of days, in the rhythm of months, in the rhythm of quarters, of
years, of decades, of centuries. Marriage is no marriage that is not a correspondence of blood.. . . The phallus is a column of blood that fills thevalley of blood of a woman”
says that cocksucking is a form of human cannibalism; she decries
the loss of the child who is the sperm . * Norman M ailer believes
that lost ejaculations are lost sons and on that basis disparages male
homosexuality, masturbation, and contraception. t But Anita B ryant is stupid and Norman M ailer is smart. Is the difference in the style with which these same ideas are delivered or in the penis?
M ailer says that a great w riter writes with his balls; novelist
Cynthia Ozick asks M ailer in which color ink he dips his balls.
Who is smart and who is stupid?
the womb of the primary darkness enters the ray o f ultimate light, and
time is begotten, conceived, there is the beginning o f the end. We are the
beginning of the end. And there, within the womb, we ripen upon the
beginning, till we become aware of the end”
*For instance: “W hy do you think the homosexuals are called fruits? It’s
because they eat the forbidden fruit of life.. . . That’s why homosexuality
is an abomination o f God, because life is so precious to God and it is such
a sacred thing when man and woman come together in one flesh and the
seed is fertilized— that’s the sealing of life, that’s the beginning o f life. To
interfere with that in any w ay— especially the eating o f the forbidden
fruit, the eating o f the sperm— that’s why it’s such an abomination.. . . it
makes the sin o f homosexuality all the more hideous because it’s antilife,
degenerative”
* For instance: “. . . but if you’re not ready to make a baby with that
marvelous sex, then you may also be putting something down the drain
