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Ancient Evenings

1997Norman Mailer

4.2/5

Ancient Evenings is a thoroughly unpleasant novel – in it Norman Mailer almost sadistically admires all sorts of violence and atrocity. If he were an Egyptian deity he surely wouldn’t have been Thoth or Horus, he would have been Seth or Anubis. So the novel may be considered as Norman Mailer’s historical \ Fleurs du Mal\ or some tenebrously romantic Totentanz… The is a highly poetic song Islands of the Dead by Be Bop Deluxe:Come with me to the fire festival, let us burn each other blind. Let us dance, let us dance away, dance till the end of time. Come with me to the islands of the dead, to the soul house, to the fire-house, to smoke and ash of laughter in your head, sweet laughter, hereafter, ever after, in the islands of the dead.And in Ancient Evenings Norman Mailer literally takes us inside the Book of the Dead.We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.History is no less a sanguinary myth than all those bloodthirsty and scatological deities that dwelt in the heads of our ancient forefathers.

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