Gore Vidal has died. Perhaps you most treasured him for mixing it up with awful racist William F. Buckley, as above. (The aesthete Buckley called Vidal "a queer.") We loved him best for (okay, Burr , but also) this: He and brute Norman Mailer were at a party when Mailer laid him out with one punch. From the floor, Vidal looked up at him, and (the precise quotation varies) intoned like a total catty bitch, "Words fail Norman Mailer once again."
ID: I think a horrific event such as the American Civil War would drive an intelligent person into either an utter belief in religion or an absolute rejection of it.
This news saddened me. He is one of the greats in my book. I was lucky to see him at an event in Toronto several years back. Just listening to him for an hour discuss the current state of the United States was an incredible experience. Okay... time to pull out my copy of Burr and start reading.
My favorite Gore Vidal book is "Lincoln." His "warts and all" presentation just made Old Abe even more impressive.
While reading it I visited the Chicago Historical Society, and there was the chair Lincoln sat in when in the Illinois legislature. The front of each arm was worn down to the wood.
I looked around - no guard. I turned around, bent my kness a bit (NO - I didn't sit in the damn thing - that would have been too much!) and put my hands were Lincoln had put his.
Yet.
The internet was that way once as well, for a very brief period.
Heinlein, <i>Beyond This Horizon</i>
Prolly had the Swiss in mind. The Afghans, ehhh, not so much.
Who do you toss into the drink, then, if your four wins a race?
We always got the most yardage out of our cox.
As fake as Ann Falter&#039;s accent - and Sheer InSannity&#039;s laugh?
ID: I think a horrific event such as the American Civil War would drive an intelligent person into either an utter belief in religion or an absolute rejection of it.
right. pointy heads engaged and enraged and the vocabulary!
fuck that. we won gold. we are back baby! USA! USA!! USA!!!!
Yes, those were a great read. (Looks for them on bookshelf).
Between the three of them I found Buckley the most punchable.
This news saddened me. He is one of the greats in my book. I was lucky to see him at an event in Toronto several years back. Just listening to him for an hour discuss the current state of the United States was an incredible experience. Okay... time to pull out my copy of Burr and start reading.
&quot;Decline&quot; implies it existed once. The evidence on that is mixed. Quite mixed.
My favorite Gore Vidal book is &quot;Lincoln.&quot; His &quot;warts and all&quot; presentation just made Old Abe even more impressive.
While reading it I visited the Chicago Historical Society, and there was the chair Lincoln sat in when in the Illinois legislature. The front of each arm was worn down to the wood.
I looked around - no guard. I turned around, bent my kness a bit (NO - I didn&#039;t sit in the damn thing - that would have been too much!) and put my hands were Lincoln had put his.
&quot;Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.&quot;
Culture always exists, but civilization requires more than the odd individual here and there.