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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 08-01-12 10:35
One of my favorite people. In his Wildest dreams, Morrissey is half as witty as Vidal was.
"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return."
"Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little."
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it."
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 08-01-12 10:39
He's one of those authors I've always meant to read but have never gotten around to. I'll have to bump him up higher on my list.
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 08-01-12 10:42
You beat me to it. . . RIP, Gore. A life well-lived.
"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?"
Weird fact: He also had a spaghetti sauce recipe in Playboy decades ago (I just read it for the recipes) that called for soy sauce and which is out-of-this-world good. My friend makes a huge batch once a year and freezes a bulk of it--I am usually (and thankfully) a beneficiary of that batch.
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Author: nosepail
Date: 08-01-12 10:51
Read and enjoyed Burr and Myra Breckenridge. I loved how Myra always promised that if she ever met some of the old-time western actors, she would "give them a roll for old-times sake." I believe Gore's autobiography was called "Palimpsest" - one of the greatest words in the English language. That's all I've got.
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Author: breno
Date: 08-01-12 11:25
Yikes. I hate to say I thought he'd died years ago. I swear I can remember reading his obituary, but I guess not.
Maybe I dreamed it, though the idea of dreaming of reading Gore Vidal's obituary is something I wouldn't care to have analyzed.
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Author: rhettlawrence
Date: 08-01-12 12:32
I too was almost absolutely certain that he'd died earlier this year. Maybe there was a piece about his declining health or impending demise?
Never read much by him, but always thought he was a hoot on Johnny Carson.
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 08-01-12 15:44
Quote:
I believe Gore's autobiography was called "Palimpsest"
He'd issued a second memoir called Point To Point Navigation which I'd checked out on CD from the local library this spring and had it in the car for weeks. He was reading it himself. Great voice.
He played the Mission Director in Gattaca if you need a film reference for triangulation. I've never actually read any of his novels. I was mostly familiar with him from television appearances and the odd essay perhaps.
I'll always cherish the eight very fertile years he spent bagging on Dubya's administration. If you can find footage of him doing his George W. Bush impression ("I'm a war-time president! I'm a war-time president!") ... view it.
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Author: zoo
Date: 08-01-12 16:55
I read Burr, Lincoln, and 1876. Good books. Burr was the best. RIP.
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