During this time, mailer also displayed an unexpected humility in the company of his fellow literary stars.
This is not to suggest that mailer ever lost the intellectual toughness which was central to his work.
Many readers will no doubt be surprised just how friendly mailer was, how helpful he was to friends and strangers alike.
“You know, I never had a monstrous ego,” mailer confides to a friend in l987.
mailer would argue, for example, that timidity does more harm to the novelist than donning a mask of extreme self-confidence.
The great Pacific mailer was lost in the fog full half a mile away.
If they got us out there they could surround us and mailer the life out of us.
He inked each galley, placed it in the mailing machine, and then fed the papers into the mailer.
When she entered the editorial office Tom was putting the last of the papers through the mailer.
This is a very short and simple entry in Mr. mailer's journal, but it has most solemn significance.
"post, letters," c.1200, "a traveling bag," from Old French male "wallet, bag, bundle," from Frankish *malha or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *malho- (cf. Old High German malaha "wallet, bag," Middle Dutch male "bag"), from PIE *molko- "skin, bag." Sense extension to "letters and parcels" (18c.) is via "bag full of letter" (1650s) or "person or vehicle who carries postal matter" (1650s). In 19c. England, mail was letters going abroad, while home dispatches were post. Sense of "personal batch of letters" is from 1844, originally American English.
"metal ring armor," c.1300, from Old French maille "link of mail, mesh of net," from Latin macula "mesh in a net," originally "spot, blemish," on notion that the gaps in a net or mesh looked like spots.
"send by post," 1828, American English, from mail (n.1). Related: Mailed; mailing; mailable. Mailing list attested from 1876.
"rent, payment," from Old English mal (see blackmail (n.)).
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