[Asclepius]

Mailer may have drawn some comfort yesterday from two fellow World War II veterans - Kurt Vonnegut and Gore Vidal.

The death of American letters, these three.

[an amused spectator]

The death of American letters, these three.

They ain't gonna make into the Classics, that's for sure.

[Moby Grape]

It is true that many on the left can, as Miller said of Mailer, "arrange words so beautifully", yet they so often say such stupid things with them.