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 \u003Cbr>MAILER:I spent only 50,000 words  \u003Cbr>because Milton's photographs are so  \u003Cbr>resonant—not only of Marilyn Monroe  \u003Cbr>but those other women including  \u003Cbr>Grandma Moses.The men,too,and  \u003Cbr>that one of the empty kitchen.Actu-  \u003Cbr>ally,I blame Milton's resonance for  \u003Cbr>my“imaginary memoir”of Marilyn  \u003Cbr>based on a\"set of interviews that never  \u003Cbr>took place.\"Milton's pictures\"speak  \u003Cbr>of those little mysteries women traverse  \u003Cbr>on the road to beauty,and that as we  \u003Cbr>know is the beginning of all legend.”  \u003Cbr>In my own advance review in New  \u003Cbr>York I announced I\"wanted to deepen  \u003Cbr>the legend of Marilyn Monroe,not  \u003Cbr>sweeten it.”  \u003Cbr>JUNG:Why did you write your own  \u003Cbr>review?   | MAILER:There's precedent.Walt  \u003Cbr>Whitman favorably reviewed his own  \u003Cbr>work.Anonymously.I made no secret.  \u003Cbr>The critics had debated so needlessly  \u003Cbr>about whether my Pulitzer Prize win-  \u003Cbr>ning Executioner's Song was fact or  \u003Cbr>fiction....  \u003Cbr>JUNG:What is fact,what fiction,in  \u003Cbr>Of Women and Their Elegance?  \u003Cbr>MAILER:Here are some facts:Mari-  \u003Cbr>lyn did make the movies mentioned;  \u003Cbr>she was married to Joe Di Maggio and  \u003Cbr>to Arthur Miller;Milton Greene did  \u003Cbr>produce The Prince and the Showgirl;  \u003Cbr>Marilyn did stay with the Greenes in  \u003Cbr>Connecticut;she did appear with them  \u003Cbr>on Edward R.Murrow's Person to  \u003Cbr>Person.Marilyn even had some of the  \u003Cbr>conversations given to her in the book.  \u003Cbr>JUNG:Which conversations?  \u003Cbr>MAILER:I admit I make no distinc-  \u003Cbr>tions there.Why do you,of all writers,  \u003Cbr>quibble?Another borderland between  \u003Cbr>fact and fiction is Marilyn's reading.  \u003Cbr>But she could have read some of the  \u003Cbr>books in Amy Greene's library.  \u003Cbr>JUNG:What then is pure fiction?  \u003Cbr>MAILER:Apart from your own  \u003Cbr>theories?Some of the most interesting  \u003Cbr>characters are fictional:Edward,the  \u003Cbr>boyfriend who didn't think Marilyn  \u003Cbr>was good enough for him but who im-  \u003Cbr>pregnated her thrue times;Bobby de   | Peralta O’Connor,the rich boy who  \u003Cbr>takes Marilyn along on a failed plot to  \u003Cbr>murder his ex-wife;Abraham Robert  \u003Cbr>Charles,the \"worst acting teacher,\"  \u003Cbr>who outdid you.C.G.,in his theory,  \u003Cbr>shared with Marilyn,that we have two  \u003Cbr>souls.  \u003Cbr>JUNG:Do you allude to my observa-  \u003Cbr>tion that woman has an animus,man  \u003Cbr>an anima—those mutually exclusive  \u003Cbr>images projected on the opposite sex—  \u003Cbr>which explain how men and women  \u003Cbr>distort and fantasize each other's inner  \u003Cbr>lives?Forgive my self quotation....  \u003Cbr>MAILER:As long as you take no  \u003Cbr>pleasure in it.  \u003Cbr>JUNG:In your anima projection on  \u003Cbr>Miss Monroe,for example....  \u003Cbr>MAILER:Are you accusing me of pro-  \u003Cbr>jecting my anima on Marilyn Monroe?  \u003Cbr>I never touched her,let alone inter-  \u003Cbr>viewed her.  \u003Cbr>JUNG:Ah,but it is your image of her  \u003Cbr>that is so resonant of what I said in  \u003Cbr>Marriage as a Psychological Relation-  \u003Cbr>ship about a certain type of woman  \u003Cbr>who attracts anima projections.  \u003Cbr>\"Sphinxlike,\"she is\"of more than  \u003Cbr>doubtful chastity,childlike and yet en-  \u003Cbr>dowed with a naive cunning that is ex-  \u003Cbr>tremely disarming to men.”She is the  \u003Cbr>\"great illusionist,the seductress.\"  \u003Cbr>MAILER:So I said more economically   |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n\n| RECENTLY published in England,a  \u003Cbr>book of reminiscences by a long-time  \u003Cbr>foreign correspondent,now European  \u003Cbr>editor of NewsweekEdward Behr,  \u003Cbr>who has chosen possibly the most  \u003Cbr>provocative title of the year:Anybody  \u003Cbr>Here Been Raped and Speaks English?  \u003Cbr>The London Sunday Times ","cbCaiaAihmb8IM8Y","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaAihmb8IM8Y","pdf",2376751,"English","# Interview exchange\n## Fact and fiction in the portrayal\n## Photos, legend, and imagined memoir","[{\"question\":\"What is the central theme of the exchange in the document?\",\"answer\":\"The exchange focuses on the relationship between photographic representation and the line between fact and fiction in portraying Marilyn Monroe.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Mailer explain his approach to writing about Marilyn Monroe?\",\"answer\":\"Mailer emphasizes an “imaginary memoir” structure, citing the resonance of the photographs and the use of interviews that never took place, while also listing specific facts tied to Monroe.\"},{\"question\":\"Which questions does Jung raise about truth and images?\",\"answer\":\"Jung challenges the idea that more pictures cannot translate to more meaning, and he presses on what counts as fact versus pure fiction, including how anima-projection ideas relate to the portrayal.\"}]","Of Women and Their Elegance - Interview Exchange between Norman Mailer and Carl G. 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