11.10.07
Goodbye, Mr. Mailer
Goodbye to a man
who has practically been “through it all” – an engineering science degree from
Harvard, being posted as an infantryman here in the Philippines, and winning two
Pulitzers among other things. Although
his life was terribly criticized, his outstanding journalism and writing is
what a Newsweek reviewer led to say, “In the end it is the writing
that will count.” (I don’t fully agree, but we get the point, don’t we?)
“In my day the library was a wonderful place… We didn’t have visual aids and
didn’t have various programs…it was a sanctuary… So I tend to think the
library should remain a center of knowledge.”
Even in my day with abounding visual and virtual luxuries, I would still like
to continue believing
the same, Mr. Mailer… and there will you also abide.
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“Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into
more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or
dying a little bit.” Norman Mailer
