Gore Vidal bats a colossal purring cat off his lap in the alive room of his family in the Hollywood Hills as he argues, whiskey in hand, that America's Puritan attitudes on ###### have made it "the dumbest country on Earth."
At old 81, Vidal is not understood as the citizen scold for nobody. There are few fights the famed novelist, playwright and polemicist has shied away from over the final 50 or 60 years and in this case, it is hostile American opinions toward homo######uality that paints his ire.
He has been open about his ######uality for years but refuses to be defined by it.
"They say ######ual play is the equivalent of human identity. What a mad notion. If you are a vegetarian, does that average you are the antagonist of all mutton eaters. Does that average that every time a vegetarian sees meat served, he kills peddlers or smashes up restaurants?"
Having said that, Vidal then embarks on a tour of the macrocosm of his caress likes and grudges
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The paperback takes its title from his experience in World War Two on a Navy ship in the Bering Sea, where it was so foggy that the stars could not be seen and a pilot sailed by looking at rocks and capes in the sea prefer than by compass.
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This idea allows him to jump from rock to rock, subject to subject, person to person much the way he converses.
An attack on homophobia morphs into a tale about the 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and then into a warning that the U.S. economic will collapse.
A collector of folk and wicked or revealing tales about them, Vidal can sound like he knew someone even now a century separates them for when his speak about how homo######uals are demonized leads him to consider of the difficulties Disraeli had as the biggest outsider ever labeled premier minister of Britain.
"He was a Jew who converted to the Church of England but was still a Jew as far as the Archbishop of Canterbury was cared. Disraeli was visited by the Archbishop who told him 'We are a bit bothered about your religion. You were connate a Jew but were accustomed an Anglican. You will be designating bishops, so may we ask you what your personal religion is?'
"Disraeli replied, 'All sapient men have the same religion. As apt what it namely
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That is Vidal's direction of saying he will only work by far in revealing his private life and not further.
Vidal says he and some of his closest friends, favor playwright Tennessee Williams, all suffered the backlash of homophobia but he is no amused in talking many almost his ###### life or even many about himself. He refuses to be categorized according to ######uality.
"I hardly write about myself at all. I thought I ought have some award that sets me individually from additional American writers who only write about themselves. I know the end of the road is coming. I thought it was time for a summing up," Vidal said as the feline crawled back up above his lap.
And that gives him a accident to jot lovingly about his associate of 53 annuals
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Vidal likewise writes fondly about Britain's Princess Margaret, a friend for 40 years. "She was much maligned. But she always said that was for she was an of two sisters and it was inevitable that one (Queen Elizabeth) would be described as a font of honor and the other as wicked and malign."
And he writes mysteriously of Jacqueline Kennedy, with whom he had strained narratives.
Vidal said when a friend inquired Kennedy what her greatest accomplishment was
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