So his genius resides in making anal intercourse into some kind of a revolutionary statement? EeeeeeeeeyaaaAAAAAWN! He always reminds me of that image of Nietzsche (surely Mailer’s intellectual priest,) – pale, pathetic and perversely Messianic – writing feverishly about supermen and the liberation of the will through amorality- while he languished away in tiny rooms, in delusions of degraded grandeur, in pathetic narcisstic self-aborption, while the rest of the world moved on and grew up.