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This incident wasn't well received in the public eye.{{cn}} They weren't amused by Mailer's published poem in 1962 indirectly poking at the stabbing. "So long as you use a knife, there's some love left."{{sfn|Mailer|1962}} | This incident wasn't well received in the public eye.{{cn}} They weren't amused by Mailer's published poem in 1962 indirectly poking at the stabbing. "So long as you use a knife, there's some love left."{{sfn|Mailer|1962}} | ||
Susan Mailer, in her 2019 memoir, admits she was afraid of her father, but she also understood her fears of him: "He had stabbed his wife, my stepmother, Adele."{{sfn|Mailer|2019|p=114}} Mailer adds, "We had to deal with the shame of having a father who had almost killed his wife. A father who was famous enough so that no one ever let you forget what he had done."{{sfn|Mailer|2019|p=114}} | Susan Mailer, in her 2019 memoir, said that in her book, In Another Place: with and Without My Father, Norman Mailer, in the chapter called "Silent Spaces", says she "had no choice but to face with considerable angst what this painful episode meant to me and my family."{{sfn|Mailer|2019|p=114}} admits she was afraid of her father, but she also understood her fears of him: "He had stabbed his wife, my stepmother, Adele."{{sfn|Mailer|2019|p=114}} Mailer adds, "We had to deal with the shame of having a father who had almost killed his wife. A father who was famous enough so that no one ever let you forget what he had done."{{sfn|Mailer|2019|p=114}} | ||
In her 1997 memoir ''The Last Party'', Adele Morales, writing as Adele Mailer, recollects of the stabbing. She recalls seeing Mailer punching people in the street. She suggests that he was delirious and couldn't "remember who he was, or what his name was."{{sfn|LA Obit|2015}} She remembers Mailer bursting into their apartment, but did not notice the knife in his hand when he rushed toward her. Morales notes that Mailer seemed indifferent while she lay on the floor bleeding.{{sfn|LA Obit|2015}} | In her 1997 memoir ''The Last Party'', Adele Morales, writing as Adele Mailer, recollects of the stabbing. She recalls seeing Mailer punching people in the street. She suggests that he was delirious and couldn't "remember who he was, or what his name was."{{sfn|LA Obit|2015}} She remembers Mailer bursting into their apartment, but did not notice the knife in his hand when he rushed toward her. Morales notes that Mailer seemed indifferent while she lay on the floor bleeding.{{sfn|LA Obit|2015}} | ||