The Armies of the Night

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The Armies of the Night (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)

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*Pentagon. Mammoth government building located across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., that houses the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Norman Mailer refers to the structure as the “true and high church” of the military-industrial complex, “the blind five-sided eye of a subtle oppression which had come to America out of the very air of the century.” It is portrayed as a geometrical anomaly, an aberration rising from the Virginia fields, a misfit to its natural surroundings, and a creature deserving of its isolation. Nonetheless,...

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See Also:

• Norman Mailer (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Norman Mailer (Long Fiction)
• Norman Mailer (Dictionary of World Biography)
• Norman Mailer (Identities and Issues)
• Norman Mailer (Sixties in America)