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The Rape of the Moon: Norman Mailer Talks about Sexual Lunacy and the WASP

Leticia Kent's Vogue article-interview; Mailer's extended characterization of the WASP as disciplined, stoical, bold, and lacking imagination.

“The Rape of the Moon: Norman Mailer Talks about Sexual Lunacy and the WASP,” an article-interview by Leticia Kent in Vogue (1 February 1971), contains Mailer’s extended comment on the WASP temperament he had anatomized in Of a Fire on the Moon (71.1): “disciplined, stoical, able to become the instrument of his own will, has extraordinary boldness and daring together with a resolute lack of imagination.”

First published: 1971-02-01
Form: article-interview
Lennon & Lennon: 71.4
Cite as: /works/1971-02-01-rape-of-the-moon
Last updated: 2026-06-04