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Critical Essay by Mark Edmundson
SOURCE: "Romantic Self-Creations: Mailer and Gilmore in The Executioner's Song," in Contemporary Literature. No. XXXI, No. 4, Winter, 1990, pp. 434-47.
In the following essay, Edmundson discusses Mailer's portrayal of Gilmore in The Executioner's Song in light of Mailer's romantic narrative style and Emersonian literary aspirations.
Romantic writers are, for better and worse, obsessed with originality. In practice this means that each one who aspires to matter has to initiate his life as an artist with a story about what originality is, and that story must itself strike readers as being a new one. To compound the difficulty, the romantic writer is compelled, even as he recounts his version of originality, to be exemplifying it. Emerson sets out to do this much in his most celebrated essay, "Self-Reliance." The formula for originality he puts forward there is a simple one: you become original by listening to yourself. Genius derives from trusting the inner voice, abiding by one's "spontaneous impression … then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side." Originality is not, as Wordsworth believed it to be, the product of a favored childhood, where one is "Fostered alike by beauty and by fear" (1850 Prelude, bk. 1, line 302). Nor is it mysteriously inborn, a celestial gift, as the German romantics tended to think. Moses and Plato and Milton became what they did—in Emerson's view—by observing the "gleam of light which flashes across [the] mind from within" and speaking "not what men but what they thought."
Yet the Emersonian philosophy of self-invention is also a philosophy of self-ruin. In time, every rhetorical pearl evolves back to sand; every hard-won identity tends to "solidify and hem in the life." Romantic "self-invention" frequently begins in a sort of potlatch, a ritual in which the subject is compelled to destroy his full accumulation and return to poverty, and to ignorance, that state on which, according to Thoreau, all growth depends. The American romantic faith is a faith in crisis: without ruin, no renovation. And no renovation, it's assumed, is final: always, as Emerson says, there must be abandonment.
Of all the major American writers at work now, Norman Mailer probably has come the closest to committing himself to Emerson's literary ethos of self-destroying self-invention. From early on in his career it has been Mailer's aim to baffle expectations about who he is and what he might be capable of doing. His ambition has been thoroughly Emersonian—"to dive and reappear in new places."
Mailer's style of diving and reappearing has earned him a certain notoriety, some applause, and also a good deal of vitriolic criticism, particularly about the a- or immorality of productions like "The White Negro," An American Dream, Why Are We in Vietnam?, and the two books on Marilyn Monroe. The charges against Mailer tend to be akin to those leveled against romantic writers as far back at least as Byron: he's violent, self-obsessed, an opportunist, a destructive opponent of what's most nourishing in humanistic culture. Mailer's excesses are all the worse, to this way of thinking, in that they're amplified through the whole vulgar network of the mass media, reaching beyond the intellectuals who know how to put his clownings in context and giving the institution of Literature a bad name.
The reaction to Mailer's major book of the seventies, The Executioner's Song, has to be seen against the background of this kind of moralizing response to his work. For it appeared, at least from the initial reviews of the book, that Mailer had undergone a conversion. Critics noticed immediately, and usually with relief, that Mailer's commitment to a high romantic style had disappeared. "Style," says Robert Frost, "is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying." How does the writer take himself in The Executioner's Song? Not at all, said most of the book's reviewers: Mailer had succeeded in refining his prodigious ego out of the book. He had achieved something like an Eliotic annulment of self, an "extinction of personality," in which he suppressed his own voice to become the medium for a variety of others. And the reason for this surrender had to do, naturally, with the failure, or at least with the obsolescence, of his former romantic project. Mailer had given up his Emersonian illusions about originality and self-reinvention. He'd replaced attempts at auto-American-biography—the creation of works in which the words "I" and "America" can at some moments (and those not always the most attractive or admirable ones) be interchanged—with social documentary. Finally Mailer was one of us. Or such was the judgment of many of those critics of Mailer who tend to think of his "talent" as a natural resource and of themselves as its board of directors. Such a judgment, given Mailer's past record, is probably worth questioning.
The Executioner's Song deals with Gary Gilmore, a figure now famous enough to have his likeness on display in Madame Tussaud's. There one may see his wax effigy executed by an invisible firing squad every three minutes or so and read the story of how Gilmore was condemned to death by the state of Utah for the murder of two young men in the summer of 1976. Gilmore refused to seek a stay of execution and demanded that the state follow through on its promise and kill him, which it eventually did. Mailer tells Gilmore's story by way of indirect discourse, from the points of view of over a hundred of the persons involved. Almost everyone, including Gilmore, submitted to extensive interviewing. Thus the book came out of careful study and reworking of tapes and transcripts.
Part of Mailer's fascination with Gilmore surely owed to his resemblance to the figure of the psychopath described in "The White Negro" twenty years before. "The White Negro," Mailer's first text with romantic aspirations, is an attempt to incarnate an authentically American voice and temper to resist the prevailing atmosphere of "conformity and depression" in which a "stench of fear … come[s] out of every pore of American life, and we suffer from a collective failure of nerve." Mailer's dilemma is Emersonian, akin to the one in which "Self-Reliance" begins. Yet his response, a mythical self-projection into a figure of rebellion whom he calls, alternately, the hipster, the White Negro, and the psychopath, owes more, I suspect, to Blake and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. In his first major prophetic book, Blake transforms himself (with no little self-directed irony) into a satanic poet in order to assault the false pieties that the "Angels" who dominate the religious, political, and artistic life of late-eighteenth-century England enforce. Mailer is probably not being any more sensationalistic than Blake was when he identifies himself with the figure his orthodox contemporaries fear most. One of the many fine intuitions in "The White Negro" is that the psychopath had taken the place of Satan in contemporary morality. Mailer sees the ethic of psychoanalysis, with its endorsement of irony, stoicism, and detachment, as the repressive Anglicanism of his day, a state and corporate religion designed to quell nonconformity. The psychopath's hunger for immediacy in all things can't help but threaten a culture committed to deferred and displaced satisfactions.
Mailer's alternative is a romantic return to childhood, but a return far less tranquil and tranquilizing than the one envisioned by Wordsworth and Coleridge, or, needless to say, by the psychoanalyst. Mailer's psychopath replays the past event in the present so that he can gain back what was lost, score victories where he was, in childhood, forced to make concessions. The conception couldn't be more in the native romantic vein. When Mailer, in another context, declares that going "from gap to gain is very American," he both evokes this design and provides a good throwaway epigraph for Emerson's collected works. Where Freud believed that the best that one could hope for would be to transform compulsive repetition into an accepting memory of the traumatic event, Mailer demands a full redemption. If the hipster "has the courage to meet the parallel situation at the moment when he is ready," Mailer writes, "then he has a chance to act as he has never acted before…. In thus giving expression to the buried infant in himself, he can lessen the tension of those infantile desires and so free himself to remake a bit of his nervous system." Mailer's Gilmore comes close to exemplifying the type for whom "the decision is to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness, and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention, the life where a man must go until he is beat, where he must gamble with his energies through all those small or large crises of courage and unforeseen situations which beset his day."
Gilmore doesn't make a cogent decision to act in this way, as Mailer's hipster does—Gilmore, at least up to a certain critical point in the book, seems incapable of making any cogent decisions. The amount of confusion he can create in a few hours' space is frequently astonishing. On one night we find him running stolen guns; fighting it out, physically, on the highway with his girlfriend, Nicole; trying (and failing) to steal a tape deck from the local shopping mall; banging into the car parked behind his when he tries to escape; eluding (cannily) a pursuing squad car; and arriving at last, in the middle of the night, at his cousin Brenda's house, where he wakes up everyone to demand fifty dollars so that he can run away to Canada.
But at other times Gilmore is more sympathetic. On the night that he gets his first paycheck, for example, he goes off to see a movie with Brenda and Johnny, her husband. The picture is Gilmore's choice, and he picks, as one might almost have predicted, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It turns out that Gilmore served time in the penitentiary next to the mental hospital where Cuckoo's Nest was filmed and that in fact he'd been treated in the hospital itself. Gilmore is chaos throughout the film, cheering, shouting commentary, bashing on the chairs in front of him. Almost everyone gets up and moves away from him eventually, and by the end of the evening Brenda, who usually shows an exemplary patience with Gary, is completely exasperated. But Gilmore had a point to make at the film, though he made it crudely enough. He felt, one can surmise, that he had more in common with R. P. McMurphy, Kesey's pulp equivalent of Mailer's White Negro, than Jack Nicholson, who played the role, or anyone else present in the theater for that matter. So why shouldn't he be the object of attention? Exacerbating Gilmore's mood would be the fact that the crowd paying to worship McMurphy's nonconformity had rewarded Gilmore for his by keeping him in jail for nineteen out of his thirty-five years. One understands Gilmore's confusion. Mailer certainly understands it well, but he's unwilling to turn the book into an overt celebration of a latter-day hipster. There's no tendency to extend the tonal grandeur of "The White Negro" to Gary Gilmore.
But there is a point in the story where Gilmore's status changes. Up until this moment, Gilmore has been almost wholly destructive, acting on every whim as though it were divine inspiration. "He was grabbing at everything. It was as if the world was just out of reach of his fingers," says a young woman of Gilmore. He wants full possession of everything glowing that comes in range.
But from the point when Gilmore decides that he is willing to die, he takes on a certain dignity. There have been no capital punishments for some time in the state of Utah, and everyone expects that Gilmore will do what every other convicted killer has done and fight for a life in jail, but he will not. The climax of the book, at least in my judgment, comes when Gilmore, having been condemned and imprisoned for the two murders, chooses to force the state of Utah to carry out his sentence and execute him. Here is Gilmore addressing the Board of Pardons to demand his own death:
I simply accepted the sentence that was given to me. I have accepted sentences all my life. I didn't know I had a choice in the matter.
When I did accept it, everybody jumped in and wanted to argue with me. It seems that the people, especially the people of Utah, want the death penalty but they don't want executions and when it became a reality they might have to carry one out, well, they started backing off on it.
Well, I took them literal and serious when they sentenced me to death just as if they had sentenced me to ten years or thirty days in the county jail or something. I thought you were supposed to take them serious. I didn't know it was a joke.
One may detest Gilmore for living in the world as though it were an open question whether the other people there are as real as he is, and still acknowledge his triumph of wit here. Consider the context. Gilmore has spent the balance of his life under the control of institutions. He has been told when to get up in the morning, when to sleep, when to exercise, when to eat. Society has applied enormous resources to the task of normalizing him, rendering him into a coherent, stable citizen. And if the price of subduing his antisocial instincts involves doing away with whatever imaginative potential he might possess, so be it.
Gilmore's deep joke consists in capitulating and becoming just the kind of well-disciplined subject everyone always wanted him to be, but at the wrong moment. The most imaginative act of Gilmore's life, and the costliest to himself, is to pretend to possess no imagination whatever. The result is a sudden reversal. Gilmore, in an instant, stands in relation to the institutional powers of justice as they have, for nineteen years, stood to him. He's demanding that they follow procedure, get in line, stop being so inconsiderate and whimsical. The satisfaction Gilmore derived from the deadpan "I didn't know it was a joke" had to have been great. In any event, it was dearly gotten.
It's hard not to spare a little affection for someone who was motivated, at least in part, to die for the sake of a shrewd joke. Freud, no lover of criminals, uses as his first example in the paper on humor that of the condemned man who approaches the scaffold on a Monday morning saying, "Well, the week's beginning nicely." Wit entails looking down upon oneself from the position of the collective, or cultural, superego, says Freud, and seeing from that perspective how insignificant one's own life is. Gilmore's stroke modifies Freud a little: wit of his sort entails taking up the position of a superego above the cultural standard of the law, making of it a helpless child, temporarily.
Gilmore, it would seem, became capable of this sort of victory when he went to jail. As he says to his cellmate Gibbs (who turns out to be a police informer) shortly after arriving in confinement, "I am in my element now." In jail, Gilmore is a different kind of person. He draws and paints, writes some fine letters in a neo-Whitmanian mode, and develops a singular sense of humor, of which a couple of the better instances can serve as samples. Moody, one of Gilmore's lawyers, is interviewing him: "If on your passage you meet a new soul coming to take your place, what advice would you have for him?" Gilmore: "Nothing. I don't expect someone to take my place. Hi, I'm your replacement … where's the key to the locker … where do you keep the towels?" Then there's Gilmore's proposal for a new way to make money off his death: "Oh, hey, man, I got something that'll make a mint. Get aholda John Cameron Swazey right now, and get a Timex wristwatch here. And have John Cameron Swazey out there after I fall over, he can be wearing a stethoscope, he can put it on my heart and say, 'Well, that stopped,' and then he can put the stethoscope on the Timex and say, 'She's still running, folks.'"
What accounts for the change in Gilmore, from Mailer's point of view presumably, is that Gilmore has developed something of a romantic faith. Gilmore's effort, from about the time that he enters prison, is to conduct himself so that he can die what he would himself credit as a "good death." And that means living the time he has left with some charity, and above all with equanimity, without signs of desperation. Gilmore's weakness lies, perhaps, in his requiring a fixed date to direct himself. But his willingness to engage death is what sets him apart from most of the other people in the book. In saying this much, I am finding a strong bias in Mailer's supposedly neutral account. But if we look at the form of The Executioner's Song—with form being understood in Kenneth Burke's sense as the setting up of expectations in the reader—we will see that it is far less neutral a text than most of its reviewers wished it to be.
The basic unit of The Executioner's Song is the short paragraph written from the perspective of one or another participant in the story. The passages work as self-contained dramatic units, a fact Mailer emphasizes by surrounding each one with a generous aura of blank space. He composes the paragraphs in the third person but injects each of them with enough of the person's idiom to convey a sense of his character. Here, for example, is Gilmore's parole officer Mont Court reflecting (with mediation by Mailer) on whether to have Gary picked up for a parole violation or let him turn himself in. "Gilmore, coming back on his own, would be fortifying the positive side of himself. He would know Court had been right to trust him. That would give a base on which to work. The idea was to get a man into some kind of positive relationship with authority. Then he might begin to change." Mailer's conception of Mont Court is there to be heard in the style of these lines, and particularly in the phrase "positive relationship with authority." Here and throughout the book, Mailer works somewhat in the manner of the portrait painter who follows her subject around for a while before she begins to paint. She's waiting for him to strike a physical pose that reveals some crucial aspect of his character. Mailer combed through the relevant tapes and transcripts in search of similarly revealing moments of speech. One test of the book's integrity would be whether those represented would be willing to sign their names to their sections of the text. Most, I think, would, and in that sense the book is very much theirs.
But Mailer is alive in The Executioner's Song too, and not least in the rhythmical shapings that he gives to the paragraphs. The book starts, for example, with Brenda's memory of Gary catching her as she falls from the breaking branch of a forbidden apple tree. Gary then helps her drag away the branch so they won't be caught and punished. So from the beginning we're led to associate Gary with a fall, with transgression, and with—the parallels are too numerous to be discounted—the Fall. A sense that the incident might anticipate the future comes through in the passage's final line: "That was Brenda's earliest recollection of Gary." The mythical echoes and the soft but perceptible drop of the last line convey a certain inevitability. Gilmore is fated, despite finer impulses, to fail. His destiny is tragic, a fact brought home to the reader by the comparable shaping of many of the passages that focus on him. Here is the end of a paragraph in which Gilmore says good-bye to his brother Mikal: "He leaned over and kissed Mikal on the mouth. 'See you in the darkness,' he said." Here a priest, Father Meersman, talks to Gary about wearing a hood during the execution: "If Gary wanted to die with dignity, then he had to respect that very, very simple thing about the hood. It was there for practicality to allow the thing to run very dignified, and no movement. Gary listened in silence." In this passage, Gilmore receives communion from Meersman: "Gary took the wafer on his tongue in the old style, mouth open, way back, in the way, observed Father Meersman, he had received as a child, and then he drank from the chalice. Father Meersman stood beside him while Gary consumed the bottom of the cup." The kind of foreshadowing that occurs, with varying degrees of subtlety, in these passages pervades the book. One section after another about Gilmore ends with a tonal allusion to his death. The effect, over the course of a thousand or so pages, is to confer on Gary a considerable stature. Fate seems to have singled him out for sacrifice. From Mailer's point of view, it is fair to surmise, Gary earns his tragic status by saying yes to his own death.
Gilmore is not the only person in The Executioner's Song who is so treated. The passages devoted to his girlfriend, Nicole Baker, a figure easily as complex as Gary, finish with a dying fall at least as often as Gilmore's passages do, and perhaps more. And it is Nicole's disdain for life, evidenced by, among other things, a determined suicide attempt, combined with her vitality and resilience, that makes Mailer confer a tragic dignity on her as well. In fact, all of those figures in the book who live strongly in the knowledge of death receive some share of Mailer's elegiac tones. Mailer is moved by people like Brenda, her father Vern Damico, and Bessie Gilmore, Gary's mother, and offers them the one form of authorial tribute that the book's constraints allow.
Larry Schiller, who interviewed Gilmore extensively and who eventually collaborated with Mailer on the book, is largely denied this treatment, as is Barry Farrell, a journalist who seems to share some of Mailer's private apprehensions about the workings of the world. But this is something one might have predicted: Mailer has always claimed to care more for working-class Americans than for literati and Eastern sophisticates. What is surprising, particularly in light of the reviews the book received, is the kind of shaping that Mailer gives to the paragraphs focused on Gilmore's victims and their wives. In his review of The Executioner's Song, Walter Karp, a tough-minded and acute political writer, praised Mailer for giving up his long-time disdain for the American squares and treating Max and Colleen Jensen and Debbie and Ben Bushnell with compassion (25-26). Here are the first two passages on the Bushnells:
Debbie was feeling a little off one day and Ben kept wanting to take her to the doctor. She was pregnant, after all. But there were eleven kids over from the Busy Bee Day-Care Center, and Debbie didn't have the time. Ben finally raised his voice a little. At which point she told him he bugged her. That was the worst fight they ever had.
They were proud that was the worst fight. They saw marriage as a constant goal of making each other happy. It was the opposite of that song "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden." They kind of promised each other. They weren't going to be like other marriages.
Debbie Bushnell might own to having said everything included in these passages. But to shape the material as Mailer has, to end the passages with trite lines like "That was the worst fight they ever had" and "They weren't going to be like other marriages" makes the Bushnells seem small. They don't rate the tragic tones that Gary and Nicole get. On the next page, Mailer ends a passage of only three sentences on Debbie with the line, "She was terrific with kids and would rather mop her kitchen floor than read." This may have been true of Mrs. Bushnell, but given what passage endings mean in this book, and given that the recipient of this information is at the moment a reader, holding a thousand-page volume, it's clear that the presentation is potently biased. I have picked out some of the more extreme examples of Mailer's treatment of the victims. He's kinder to the Jensens, for example, but not very much. Mrs. Jensen's last thought of her husband leaving for work on the day he is to be killed is ominous but also, at the last moment, reduced. "He would be moving along the Interstate at just such a speed [55 m.p.h.] until he went around a slow graded turn and disappeared from sight and left her mind free to think of one and then another of the small things she must do that day."
The passages on the lives that the Jensens and Bushnells led before the murders tend to begin in hope of some kind and end, also, on an upswing, an upswing that sounds hollow and naive in light of events. The couples are middle-class Americans, expectant, ambitious, unworldly, and perhaps a little smug. They live without a sense of the tragic possibilities in life, the sense that Nicole Baker seems to have from childhood and that Gilmore supposedly develops over time. The Executioner's Song, I would argue, is a violent polemic on behalf of the position that Gilmore (as Mailer represents him) eventually achieves. For Mailer, if I understand him correctly, attempts to write his book from a state akin to the one he attributes to Gilmore, one that acknowledges the awareness of death as the necessary condition for every just perception.
Recall that Mailer's Gilmore began to develop his sense of death as a principle of authority when he was immersed in the partial death that jail represents. Now Mailer himself has, from early in his career, been preoccupied with the experience of imprisonment. Entering prison has, in the past, meant cutting off romantic possibilities. If self-creation involves assertion and risk, then prison is the state of death-in-life because there you have to diminish yourself, draw in in order to survive. In The Armies of the Night, Mailer speaks of jail as a place where "a man who wished to keep his sanity must never anticipate, never expect, never hope with such high focus of hope that disappointment would be painful." (The lines could serve as a compressed renunciation of Wordsworth's romantic paean to hope in book 6 of The Prelude.) In "The White Negro," prison is the image that comes forth most readily to figure limitation or the failure of self-reliance. "The wrong kinds of defeats," Mailer says there, "attack the body and imprison one's energy until one is jailed in the prison air of other people's habits." Prison has been to Mailer what acedia was to Coleridge, what "habitual self" was to Keats, and what poverty was to Emerson, the most emphatic possible conception of imaginative death.
Correspondingly, Mailer's high romantic style, the style of Armies and "The White Negro," might be said to represent the mental antithesis of imprisonment. The exhilaration those texts can produce in a reader derives in part from his sense that the writing possesses boundless resources and possibilities. One feels that Mailer will never run out of metaphors. His invention will never flag, his powers of observation and analysis will persist forever. The energizing illusion is akin to the one felt in the presence of a great athlete, who seems unlimited in her ability to extemporize fresh ways of standing out in a game.
One way to think of The Executioner's Song is as a book in which Mailer, willingly or under some compulsion, enters the prison of a restricted style. He surrenders the freedom of Emersonian abandonment and encloses himself in the rectangular walls of the book's isolated paragraphs. He adopts a voice that is cold, flat, and spectral and makes the acquiescence to death his central principle of value. The style is terminal. Mailer's early romantic style signified an energetic denial of death. The words were supposed to seem unstoppable, a stream of invention that would never find its placid level. The culture to which Mailer addressed himself then had imposed what he saw as living death by conformity on its citizens, and the task at hand was to revitalize them. But when a culture becomes falsely vitalistic, making the denial of death the principle on which its mystifications rest, it is time to try to undermine it by the Emersonian gesture of diving to reappear in a new place.
Part of what reinforces the interpretation I've been offering thus far—in which Gilmore is understood as developing into the kind of existentialist who's in accord more or less with Mailer's literary self-image—is the degree to which the book's first readers resisted seeing these designs. A reading always appears to be more authentic when it's been wrested at the expense of some other approach that can simultaneously be revealed as self-interested, anxious, or guilty. I wouldn't be surprised if Mailer, who's played off his critics as skillfully as anyone writing today, could have predicted the eventual surfacing of the kind of "subversive" interpretation that I've offered so far. In fact, he might find this reading satisfying to a troubling degree.
I mean that we ought to be suspicious at how readily The Executioner's Song yields to an analysis that calls forward so many of Mailer's key preoccupations and "finds" a shape in Gilmore's career that the author of "The White Negro" might have desired for his own. So it seems worth asking how we might have seen Gilmore without Mailer's subtle shaping of his story.
What's striking throughout the text—and Mailer plays on this—is the inability of all the institutional agencies and their functionaries, prison psychiatrists, social workers, wardens, and the rest, to come up with a description of Gilmore that isn't jargon-ridden and flat-minded. No one can describe to anyone else's satisfaction why Gilmore committed the murders. And this may be true not because they haven't got access to the resources of the Novelist, but because Gilmore doesn't provide enough fixity. Perhaps one can't fairly represent his character, as Mailer habitually represents his own, in terms of some internal dynamic or dialectic. Maybe Gilmore's life doesn't lend itself to a "form"; and maybe he doesn't attempt to fashion his experience in a manner analogous to the fashioning of a literary career. From this point of view, Gilmore's only "motive" is a hunger for passionate disruption, an urge to fracture any set of social forms in which he finds himself. His profession that he wants to die made in front of the Board of Pardons may be the inception of an existential project. It may also be an act of simple, spontaneous anarchism, aiming a joke at a venerable institution, then living out the joke for the possibilities of future disruption that arise from it.
I am suggesting that a great deal of Gilmore's behavior might be best understood as parodic, as when, in prison, he begins impersonating a celebrity: signing autographs, sending T-shirts to his fans, spending hours over his mail and his clippings, using his status to try to consort on equal terms with a few others among the rich and famous. His interviews with Schiller, and with his lawyers Moody and Stanger, when read from a certain angle, offer amusing send-ups of journalistic encounters with politicians and other professional evaders. Gilmore's gross manipulations—especially of Nicole, whom he induces to attempt suicide—are the gestures of a crazed real-life film director, experimenting with a sudden unexpected power on other people's lives. Perhaps Gilmore is devoted to nothing more than a certain brutal form of "play," manifest in bitter jokes and stratagems, parody, and the creation of temporary roles, a form of play that recognizes no purpose and no standard of value other than the venting of his energies in disruptive action and passionate speech.
I'm offering the possibility, then, that the subtleties of form in The Executioner's Song may be employed to contain an energy inimical to cultural forms, including literary forms, even of the radical Emersonian variety. Why should Mailer exert himself in the interest of this sort of confinement? Gilmore's minority or oppositional energies are the ones that Mailer wants to identify with his own, and yet these "minority" powers, if they're going to have any real value, have to possess the potential and the inclination to enter into conflict with the triad of opposing forces that Mailer sees as threatening: chaos, evil, and waste. Gilmore's brutal "play," without end or allegiance, undermines the dialectical conception of life, life conceived of as a series of significant encounters in which one can be potentially transformed for the better, which represents Mailer's main hope for salutary development.
The vision of Gilmore against which Mailer is defending himself (and his readers) is perhaps one in tune with a contemporary tendency to give up on coherent narratives; on truth, even of the pragmatic variety; on transcendence in any form; on any unironic investment in persons, objects, or interpretations. This tendency, some have argued, is encouraged by the "postmodern" experience of life as a simulacrum, as an unguided peregrination through images and codes that bear—and admit implicitly and rather cheerfully that they bear—no relations to any possible referent. Gilmore may be a creature of this world at its worst, a product and promulgate of its values. If this is in fact the case, then Gilmore has earned the not inconsiderable distinction of being the figure who compelled America's foremost literary radical to fight culture's conserving battles for it.
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The intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions of hydrazones derived from methacrolein or ethylacrolein and terminally unsaturated N-acyl-N-methylhydrazines have been investigated. The hydrazones 7b and 7c derived from N-methyl-N-pent-4-enoylhydrazine 3b were found to undergo intramolecular [4 + 2] cycloaddition above 140 °C and the pyridopyridazines 12 were isolated. The corresponding hydrazones 8b and 8c from N-methyl N-pent-4-ynoylhydrazone 4a reacted similarly and gave as the final products the pyridines 13. The scope of the reaction is limited, as was shown by the failure of several other terminally unsaturated hydrazones of αβ-unsaturated aldehydes to undergo intramolecular cycloaddition. These hydrazones did, however, undergo intermolecular [4 + 2] cyctoaddition to N-phenylmaleimide. Other hydraiones 15 of methacrolein. including the benzoylhydrazone and the phenylhydrazone, also reacted with N-phenylmaleimide to give the pyridine 14b by way of an isolable dihydropyridine 16. © 1991.
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Hi, you have issue when building svg:circle, so it doesn't work in Firefox and all spots has wrong coordinates(because of padding inside the svg element). I forked your gist and made changes so you can take a look and make changes in your code if you want. http://bl.ocks.org/1125458
Marvellous. I've attempted an adaption which uses geocoding to position the markers
Console log shows the geo function is pulling six lat/lon figures. The problem is that it is not attaching each lat/long to each marker, even though the transform function (should be) passed the right data.
Is it the case the the geo function is running 6 times, then passing the final amount to a single marker? If so, how can this be changed?
I am developing my JS skills as the code probably shows, much appreciation in advance of any help.
Here's a fork that shows how to use d3.geo machinery to draw geographic objects into the google overlay layer, including correct clipping etc.
How might I size each dot based on a value in the json? If I added another key : value pair to each object, how can this be selected for binding to the circle elements?
Me example data is below. I'm having some difficulty binding this data in lieu of the set used to create the example. What I'm trying to do is use the lat/long for location as the example does, but bind the value for all "in" values to the size of each circle.
Any help is much appreciated, thanks!
"Montebello/19th Ave":[-112.099655,33.520002],
"in": 895666,
"out": 913526
"19th Ave/Camelback Rd":[-112.09958,33.509661],
"in": 496179,
"out": 483762
"7th Ave/Camelback Rd":[-112.082757,33.509304],
"in": 285608,
"out": 297610
@mickdee: Sounds like you have two questions here so I'll answer them separately.
First, to do data binding for your sample set instead of
var marker = layer.selectAll("svg")
you'll want to do
var marker = layer.selectAll("svg")
because you have an array of objects where Mike had everything as properties of a top-level object. (NB: this also assumes that your data is in a separate "stations.json" file in your root directory; there are a few more lines to change if you have it somewhere else.) You will also need to change the line
d = new google.maps.LatLng(d.value[1], d.value[0])
but with your current layout I can't think of a way to do it that doesn't seem ugly and computationally wasteful. If your objects were instead something like
"name": "Montebello/19th Ave",
"location": [-112.099655,33.520002],
"in": 895666,
"out": 913526
then you could do
d = new google.maps.LatLng(d.location[1], d.location[0])
As for making the radius correspond to the data, you should be able to swap out
.attr("r", 4.5)
with something like
.attr("r", function(d) {return d.in / 10000;})
(the 10000 is an arbitrary number to make the circles reasonable; tweak as needed).
I'm doing something similar and running into a problem with circles not showing up until I zoom in or out -- still trying to figure out what's going on there. But hopefully this gets you pointed in the right direction.
This is a great example, but I really want to make it interactive and I can't figure out how to register click events with this. I'm not sure if the google map is eating them or something, but I'm stuck. My d3 approach was
marker.on('click', function(d,i){
overlay.onAdd, but I'm getting nothing in the console when I click. Similar results setting up listeners with
google.maps.events or jQuery.
Any suggestions?
Thanks for the great help nickbenes! I've made some progress with dots sized and colored according to data values for each station.
I've also got click events working to swap in new values for each station. The output to a user should look fine, but behind the scenes I'm doing this pretty sloppily at the moment.
Check out the example here: http://mikemcdearmon.com/portfolio/light-rail-boardings
And the code here: https://github.com/mickdee/AZD3/blob/master/maps/AZ-LRT.html
My next task is getting tooltips to work. I've tried just about every way I can think of but can't successfully get mouseover events to work properly on the svg circles either with d3 or plain ol' css.
I am new here so please accept my apologizes in advance if I am asking something wrongly. If possible I would like to ask you for help, I am using the code above in this article to plot two set of circles in a google map with some variations, so I am getting the two sets from two different files, for that I am using 2 overlays, that are added to the map separately, but it is plotting only the first set of circles, if possible could I post my code and the two files anywhere to get any help with that?
Thank you in advance.
Has a solution been found for this mouse event problem? I also would like to create some more interaction with my graphs.
I've implemented this and the marker shows up. However, when zooming in and out, the marker doesn't update its position (though panning works just fine). Any hint?
cc @mbostock
ah, nm, it turns out some css style is needed. In my case, this was needed:
.stations, .stations svg {
position: absolute;
I, too, am looking for a solution to mouseover/onclick events for the svg circles. Anyone found anything?
I ended up answering my own question. You have to make a couple changes. First make the
overlayLayer an
overlayMouseTarget like so:
var layer = d3.select(this.getPanes().overlayMouseTarget).append("div")
.attr("class", "stations");
I added the following attr to the circle:
marker.append("svg:circle").attr("r", 4.5).attr("cx", padding).attr("cy", padding).on("click",toggleExpand);
...and then had to define the
toggleExpand() method:
function toggleExpand() {
if(d3.select(this).attr("r") == 4.5) {
} else {
(please forgive the formatting, I can't make the function look good)
Thanks for this example it got me heading in the right direction.
I copied it (didn't fork) and made some changes for my own purposes so that I could use a single SVG instead of one per map marker and like several others mentioned so I could have my markers get mouse events (using
overlayMouseTarget instead of
I did a small writeup of my changes here and the end result is here.


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A full conversion MOD for ID's Quake 4, allowing you to play as multiple characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog universe.
Levels - What holds the game together.
SP is under work, but there'll be loads of maps and a nicely fleshed out story to go with them.
Level structure works like:
Act 1 - Power Map
Power maps involve everything you'd come to expect from a FPS. Running, gunning, missions to fulfill and various other things.
Act 2 - Speed Map
Pretty self-explainatory, really. A Sonic mod wouldn't be complete without some blistering, breakneck speed zones where you can truly let loose.
Act 3 - Special Map
This is a mixed bag. From boss levels to vehicle zones, this act has it all.
MP will have loads of maps, from old levels like Oil Ocean to Lost World, where some share layouts with the actual maps themselves!
BM is bonus mode, where various hidden goodies can be found. I'll keep this one quiet for now. :)
Weapons - Now, the exciting stuff!
All the weapons are set to be replaced. Some merely perform the functions you would generally need from a FPS (such as assault rifles and the like) whereas others do some wierd stuff that's pretty damn cool. Not to mention the addition of a unique melee weapon per person in MP mode, such as Silver's psychokenesis for example.
Characters - It isn't really a Sonic mod otherwise!
All the people you'd expect are here. Some which perhaps you wouldn't are too, and there's a load of NPCs who are interactable.
Also there are alternate costumes planned too (like on Rivals ;) ) but that's not confirmed yet.
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Ok, this is probably going to be the last update in a while, due to the impending GCSEs I have to sit in a few weeks.
Anyway, so far we've made a fair bit of progress lately. I'll be uploading a video soon to illustrate this. From adding rings into the game, to a mainmenu and HUD rewrite, there's a fair bit there.
Also tails is in the game. Yeah. :) It's pretty funky running around as him, especially in station square.
So yeah. The video should be up soon.
Is this thing dead?
The last update was 4 years ago.
is this a dead project??
I HOPE ITS NOT DEAD :dead:
Storyline is being reworked - Thanks for the comments! :)
Various other things are added also to the page. Comment/critique on them please. :)
No way this sounds sweet it's about time a sonic game gets put on to the doom 3 engine.Definatly watching and don't let this die please.
Erm with the story... you do realise that sonic can defeat pretty much all of Robotnik's robots except when they are charged with chaos emeralds. When they are charged with emeralds, sonic has to use the emeralds to try and beat the other powered up emeralds. It's been like that since sonic 3.
sounds really really akward....
Hi, could you please elaborate on how you find it awkward?
Thanks. :)
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Posted 02 June 2014 - 08:13 PM
I am switching to BRP because in my experience, people get tired of always playing level 6 characters since most of the material is not accessible until higher levels. I think BRP will fix this.
So, I found this In Search of the Trollslayer: A Heroic-Level Adventure for Basic Roleplaying http://www.amazon.co...=I1LE9NMKN9SVEO which is not necessarily for Magic World. Has anyone run this or any other ideas?
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I don't think you'll find a lot of material to fill your need. Not that I've seen, anyway. So if you design a custom adventure and it is well received by your players be sure to upload it!
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I figure I would just describe the monsters as they are in the D&D/D20 adventure, but find stats that are similar in BRP resources rather than replace them with BRP monsters. This will be easy for matches that are one to one like ghouls, orcs, dragons, but I will need to be more creative for other unique creatures like beholders etc...
I am incline to start off with "The Tomb of the Iron God". I am a fan of the Swords and Wizardry writers style.
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Hyboria is a great place to adventure! The Conan RPG has a lot of useful info for a campaign as well.
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I do with there was more Information on the Southern Reaches. If for No other reason, to help design modules.
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Call me fickle, but I think, after looking at the Conan RPG, that it will be easier to stick with the Southern Reaches as the campaign setting. It is a world made for this game and I presume, there will be more information when the companion comes out. Hyborea is awesome, but to keep the correct flavor, I feel like I would need to incorporate the races and classes to make sense in that world. Perhaps, in the future, someone will create a BRP Conan game. That would be great.
In the downloads section of this site there is a set of rules for the Conan setting by Jason Durall. It is for the earlier version of MW, called Elric! http://basicroleplay...acter-creation/


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On June 28, 2012 at 10:15 a.m. EST, obamacare was ruled unconstitutional via the Commerce Clause, yet ruled Constitutional on the grounds that it is a tax, even though the current White House occupant claimed it wasn't a tax while jamming it through Congress and trying unsuccessfully to sell it to the American public.
The Supreme Court of the United States' landmark ruling on obamacare and obama breaking his oft repeated pledge to not raise taxes on middle class Americans happened simultaneously.
obamacare is a $1.7 trillion tax increase from the candidate who repeatedly swore during the 2008 election and afterwards that during his administration, if you make less than $250,000 a year "you will not see your taxes increase by one single dime, I repeat, not one single dime"…
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obama is vulnerable to attack over this ruling because the Justices did not rule obamacare Constitutional under the commerce clause. : It was only ruled constitutional once viewed as a new tax. Since obama publically and repeatedly said he would never raise taxes on middle class earners, he has to disagree with this ruling, especially because obamacare was ruled unconstitutional under the commerce clause.
Do not hold your breath.
What this clearly shows is that "progressives" are more than happy to use the power of the government to force Americans into doing what they do not want to do.: : In order to accomplish that objective, they will lie, cheat, steal and kill without a shred of remorse.: Lie? Look at obama's no tax pledge.: Cheat? Look at Senator Al Franken's 2008 election victory.: Steal? Look at all the taxes taken out of every paycheck.: Kill? Look at the results of Fast and Furious.
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Gallick looked gassed and stalled the better part of the last half of the match.
If we say having those 2 one hundred percent healthy would make the difference they still only score 3 and 3 if they win, and then Erekson is back and sticks Z again and theres those 6 points back. Metcalf can and will pin Mueller again and McD was close to majoring Long. I think it would be another good dual, but the homer in me says Iowa did not wrestle near to their ability. (See last night)
Yeah, cause a guy coming back from that kind of surgery is just going to start throwing 270 pound All American's to their back. Please.
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Valorisation of Orange Peel Residues: Waste to Biochemicals and Nanoporous Materials
Article first published online: 7 AUG 2012
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201200381
Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
Volume 5, Issue 9, pages 1694–1697, September 2012
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How to Cite
Balu, A. M., Budarin, V., Shuttleworth, P. S., Pfaltzgraff, L. A., Waldron, K., Luque, R. and Clark, J. H. (2012), Valorisation of Orange Peel Residues: Waste to Biochemicals and Nanoporous Materials. ChemSusChem, 5: 1694–1697. doi: 10.1002/cssc.201200381
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- Issue published online: 5 SEP 2012
- Article first published online: 7 AUG 2012
- Manuscript Received: 1 JUN 2012
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- mesoporous materials;
- microwave chemistry;
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- terpenoids
Fruit for thought: Low-temperature microwave hydrothermal processing of orange peel not only enables the separation of the major components but also adds further value through the production of other high-value products: pectin and D-limonene, together with a rare form of mesoporous cellulose, are produced in a single step, without added acid. A process temperature change enables the conversion of D-limonene to α-terpineol.


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36 year old man | Dallas, TX, USA | Seeking women 27-42 within 65 miles
My friends would say I am a good...
My friends would say I am a good listerner/communicator, genuine, and social! I try to live a very purpose driven life...but I know when and how to relax! I would consider myself to be passionate, balanced, adventurous. I treat people using the Golden Rule. I am most passionate about marathon training and running! It is when I am at the happiest and at my very best. I have run 6 full marathons throughout the USA. I also enjoy going to Top Golf and visiting the many new restaurants and new breweries that are popping up in the Dallas area. I am currently a coach on a charity powder puff football team. The origanization is called Blondes vs. Brunettes (BVB Dallas). It raises awareness and money in hopes to find a cure to alzheimer's disease. Great Organization! I want to find someone that is fun. Someone that has an adventurous spirit to spend time. Someone who can be accepting and down to earth with similar interests and morals but someone that can challenge me with different ideas and activities. Someone that makes me feel at ease when I am around them. Someone that values family, good health, and someone that enjoys the small things in life….a nice slow walk, dancing together, etc. I would also like to find a travel partner for random weekend getaways. My favorite quote:"To give anything less than your very best is to sacrifice the gift" - Steve Prefontaine The quote speaks volumes to me and is a reminder to always work hard and strive to do the very best in life.
Coffee and conversation , Cooking , Dining out , Hobbies and crafts , Museums and art , Music and concerts , Exploring new areas , Nightclubs/Dancing , Performing arts , Playing sports , Travel/Sightseeing , Volunteering , Watching sports , Wine tasting
Dancing, Running, Tennis / Racquet sports
I exercise 5 or more times per week.
I like Dogs
Middle of the Road
Knox/Henderson, Dallas Arboretum, Lakewood, Chicago Illinois, Costa Rica!, Washington DC, Corpus Christi, White Rock Lake!, Katy Trail Ice House! Gloria's in Addison.Capitol Pub. Stan's Blue Note., Greenville Avenue.
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Clif Bars, sparkling water, running shoes, Jon Stewart video clips., Pandora Music!, My running group, watching the stock market! Eating seafood gumbo!! Listening to 80's and 90's music!,
Running at White Rock Lake. Philanthropy work at Scottish Rite Hospital, Reading, watching the History Channel or shows like that, dinner and drinks on a nice patio, Top Golf, Being around my large family.
The last book I read was called "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" It's the life story of an American Olympic runner in 1930's and 1940's.
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|5'2" (157cms)
|4'11" (149cms) to 5'5" (165cms)
|Body type:
|Athletic and toned
|About average, Curvy, Athletic and toned, A few extra pounds
|No preference
|Dark brown
|No preference
|No Way
|No Way
|Social Drinker
|Social Drinker, Regularly, Moderately
|Sales / Marketing
|No preference
|I'll tell you later
|No preference
|Never Married
|No preference
|Have kids:
|Yes, and they sometimes live at home, No, Yes, and they live away from home, Yes, and they live at home
|Wants kids:
|Definitely, Someday
|White / Caucasian
|No preference
I am half Irish and Polish. I have been fortunate enough to travel to both countries.
|Christian / Catholic
|No preference
|Bachelors degree
|No preference


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Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, and surrounding countries were the worst affected. Our work has been focused in Kenya, where our Humanitarian Programmes Officer Mark Mitchell visited in March and November 2012. He reported that food security in Kenya improved following the harvests from the October-November short rains and the scaled up humanitarian response that was implemented in the most affected areas.
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand sent $560,000 towards recovery in 2011 and 2012.
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