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Entry: Requiem for a Tough Guy Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/requiem_for_a_tough_guy#9202 Post contents: Sid, this is the marginal difference between you and me. A great American bard, Norman Mailer, has died, and unlike you, Sid, I refrain from relating it to any political or religious abstractions. All I know is that a great American bard has died, and now is the time for requiem beyond all theology and/or ideology. More simply, dare I say: Sid Cundiff, our friend, will you please just shut up while some of us mourn the passing of Norman Mailer? Ideology and political theory should just SHUT UP for at least a few days, while many of us mourn the passing of a good man, a great American man of letters, and a personal Friend of Taki and of some others among us here. I despised around 80 percent of Ron Reagan and what he did, but when he died, all of my friends (in many countries all over the world) refrained from talking to me about Reagan until his funeral was over - because they knew I respected him as an honourable President of the USA. Please, Sid Cundiff, please allow a bit of time for mourning for Norman Mailer, before you bash him. Sid, please save your criticisms of Mailer for later. Now, in this time of mourning, is not the right time - and you, Sid, as a Southern Gentleman, ought to understand that. As I know you will, Sid, because you are a Gentleman. Sent at: 2008 07 06