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Edited on Fri Nov-24-06 04:06 PM by KCabotDullesMarxIII
book, Point to Point Navigation, by their literary reviewer, Peter Lewis.
Here are a few of Vidal's gems as quoted by Lewis in his article. It begins:
"We have grown so accustomed to being hectored from Washington by powerful men of breath-taking naivety that I forgot what it was like to be addressed by intelligent, civilised Americans.They still exist. Gore Vidal, in particular, still reflects and writes in superb English."
(snip)
'Liberal'", now a pejorative word, he observes, "is interpreted to mean 'narcissistic'".
'A concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, apparently, while greed is a sign of the highest altruism. To reverse the meanings of words is a small price to pay for our vast freedom to conform and consume.'
(snip)
'You're like a visiting ambassador', I once said to him, 'but where do you represent?'
'Sanity', he replied smoothly, a small country, but there are those of us who love it.'
Beat that for hilarious irony.
(I believe the copyright in the article is owned by a company called, Solo Syndications. The paragraphs are very small, so I ventured to quote 5 of them).
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