On The Authority Of The Senses

On the Authority of the SensesAn Uncommon Conversation about Man, God and the DevilUNCOMMON CONVERSATION ABOUT MAN, GOD AND(pditor's note:n the beginning of his new book On God, Mailer fleshes out his principal beliefs—his personal religion, if you will, formed by 50 years of observation of the human condition. After abandoning atheism, Mailer says, he recoenizcd that he did believe in God. "Theconviction grew that I had a right to believe in the God I could visualize: an imperfect, existen...