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| Hearsay: |
Norman Mailer ponders what he has kept to himself all these years, in light of Grass’s late life Nazi confessions.
Mr. Mailer said he searched his own life to figure out why Mr. Grass didn’t speak about his experience earlier. “What have I held onto for so long?” he asked, and then answered: stabbing his second wife, Adele, in 1960. “It’s something I’ll probably never write about,” he said. “I’ve never felt ready to write about it.” Unless you can “write something that’s brilliant,” he added, you’re better off not writing about it at all.
Me, I’ve just kept that one night Bangkok to myself. It can make a hard man humble, let me tell you.
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