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.”