Norman Mailer passed away this weekend. To remember him we've reposted an interview from with Mailer and his son John from March, 2006. Read an excerpt below, or
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for the full text.
Isn't that boredom [that comes from marriage] antithetical to sexual
passion?
Of course. But that's also part of it. When you're driving a car that has five
hundred horsepower, you need some kind of brakes. All right, that's a crude
image [laughs]. All I'm getting
at is that very often, highly sexed people get married in order to have an
outlet. [pause] Let me see, I
can say something better than that. What a way to end up, huh? You could hang
yourself with a sentence like that. [long
pause, throat clearing] People, whether highly sexed or not, often
need a machine like a relationship, something like an accelerator and a brake.
Marriage allows you to do that very well. It's the soft machine of society.
