By Gore Vidal
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'Palimpsest reads now and then like a turbo-charged gossip column the place the entire anecdotes are humorous or endearing, and the sycophancy of the journalist is changed by means of a powerful directness. A storyteller of serious timing and burnished word, Vidal achieves the wit of excellent dialog ... the result's a ebook that's excess of a memoir; bawdy catalogue, family members saga, political historical past, elegy. And one of many year's most sensible books' man REYNOLDS, night average
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Dah," insists the boy, shaking him. " Silence, immobility on Sen. Gore's part. " Silence. Baby Gene regards his grand/ather with interest, obseroes naively. "Why do you keep your eyes closed? " Sen. Gore, amused, opens his blind eyes, begins sententiously: "Once upon a time . " Dab was a wonderful storyteller; he also made me pay back in full when I was six by getting me to read to him, which I did by the hour for several years. Thomas Pryor Gore. He is seated in his heavy wood Mission rocking chair, now in my bedroom at Ravello.
The Desire and the Succesiful Pursuit of the Whole • 3 3 We met awkwardly in the ballroom. We wore "tuxedos"; girls wore long dresses. An orchestra played such novelties as "The Lambeth Walk" and "The Big Apple:• Also slow fox-trots. nd appears, demanding, if not equal, fair time. I had brought Rosalind to the dance. She was tall and dark and exuberant. We had known each other all our lives. We had been "a couple'~ for several years. We were used to each other in a lowkey, comfortable way. Then the war came and everything changed.
Concentrate your attention, sir, solely upon the ring. " was far in the future that evening when I told Jimmie that I was going to marry Rosalind after I graduated from Exeter. "You're crazy," he said. We went downstairs to the men's room with its tall marble urinals and large cubicles. I wondered what, if anything, he felt After all, men are not boys. Fortunately, our bodies still fitted perfectly together, as we promptly discovered inside one of the· cubicles, standing up, belly to belly, talking of girls and marriage and coming simultaneously.