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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (235105)	4/11/2003 1:08:21 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

RE Mailer: Mailer's rhetorical jousting made telegenic entertainment - but there was something else. In 1960, at 4am, drunk and stoned after an argumentative party, Mailer stabbed his second wife Adele, twice, in the back and chest with a pair of scissors. He only narrowly missed her heart. Adele did not press charges and Norman's literary friends rallied round; he spent 17 days in a psychiatric ward and got a probationary sentence. The couple did not separate for the best part of a year. Nobody in his circle seems quite to have addressed the incident at all, and the same seems to have happened when his fourth wife, Beverley Bentley Mailer, said he had physically attacked her, too. Uncomfortably, the episodes seems to have been swiftly filed away under Norman Being Norman, as if they were another spat with Gore or a barroom fistfight.