Fall in love or be asphyxiated.??? (Mailer and Wolfe had a history: Mailer had once remarked, ???There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York,??? to which Wolfe replied, ???The lead dog is the one they always try to bite in the ass.???) Irving said that reading A Man in Full ???is like reading a bad newspaper or a bad piece in a magazine.