It’s Norman Mailer’s birthday, today.
In his 1959 confessional book, Advertisements for Myself, he wrote:
“Like many another vain, empty and bullying body of our time, I have been running for President these last ten years in the privacy of my mind… . The sour truth is that I am imprisoned with a perception which will settle for nothing less than making a revolution in the consciousness of our time.”
It would appear that any candidate for the US presidency–past, present, or future–has come or will come from this prison.
