Pompous words and long pauses which lay like a leaden pain over fever, the fever that one is in, over, or is it that one is just behind history? (Norman Mailer)

Pompous words and long pauses which lay like a leaden pain over fever, the fever that one is in, over, or is it that one is just behind history?

Norman Mailer

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