he missed Gore Vidal and was grateful to have been alive and reading while Vidal was

he found him scintillating accurate  and prescient

                                                      take for example this beaut from Myra Breckinridge pg40 1963  2nd printing Little Brown and Company edition

“Time and time again (writes Myra) have I heard the students speak wistfully of fighting and torturing the Vietcong, or rather of other young men fighting and torturing the Vietcong on their behalf. Not only are the male students drawn to violence (at second hand), they are also quite totalitarian-minded, even for Americans, and I am convinced that any attractive television personality who wanted to become our dictator would have their full support.”

such a succinct description of craven aholes currently grazingwandering the country

2016,  Sunday,  14  11. 21

The BeeGees  Lonely Days  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa2_CL-2ZI4