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Offline 8ullfrog

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Books and/or Current Events.
« on: August 01, 2012, 01:53:06 AM »
So Gore Vidal died. That's supposed to be a big deal because he was a political agitator back when adults were Adults instead of aged children.

Mostly I remember him because he wrote some creepy book about sterilized people, lesbians, an end of the world cult, and monkeys. (No not 12 monkeys.)

I'm not sure anyone on the den is as well read as to have heard of Vidal, but I have a strange feeling people here would have, and might give a poo about such a thread.

So, ball is in your court diasfora.
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Re: Books and/or Current Events.
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2012, 08:09:17 AM »
I'm afraid all I can offer is seeing the copy of 'The City and the Pillar' on my mum's bookcase when I was a kid, but I have never gotten around to reading it like so many others I had intended to. 

That and the fact that I refuse to mention Da Ali G Show, and by the looks of it, I even failed at that.
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« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2012, 08:09:52 AM »
I know of him from "your" TV , that's all .
didn't realise he wrote, but then again I should have as many a political critic are also writers ( some good, some bad  ;D ;D).
Reading his book list, Variety is or was his spice of life.
his other achievements are enviable.

HE wrote Caligula 1979. :o
What a national treasure.
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« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2012, 04:03:28 PM »
He wasn't afraid to push the envelope, as it were.

Norman Mailer punched him in the mouth. His reply? "Words fail Norman Mailer yet again."

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2012/08/wanna_see_gore_vidal_and_norma.php

I found it amusing, this was a roundtable, which turns into a team against Mailer.
Unfortunately, they remain civil, so the amazing story of the punching is not immortalized on film.
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Re: Books and/or Current Events.
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2012, 05:50:10 AM »
Quote from: christ on August 02, 2012, 04:32:36 AM
I always considered him to be the worst kind of snob.

They're the worst kind.
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« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2012, 07:59:43 PM »
The worst snob is the ignorant arrogant snob. He wasn't ignorant. 
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« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2012, 03:59:42 PM »
Quote from: christ on August 19, 2012, 02:59:34 PM
It depends how you define ignorance. I would say that he was wilfully ignorant when it suited him.

Isn't being willfully ignorant oxymoronic?
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« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2012, 04:05:10 PM »
Quote from: smokester on August 19, 2012, 03:59:42 PM
Isn't being willfully ignorant oxymoronic?

No, that's a cream for acne.
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« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2012, 02:56:14 AM »
Quote from: christ on August 20, 2012, 02:23:03 AM
Looking forward to the rest of the season?

I am.  For the time being.
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« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2012, 07:07:14 PM »
Quote from: christ on August 20, 2012, 02:23:03 AM
Looking forward to the rest of the season?

No.  :(
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