Vidal is almost always fun to listen to. ... vocabularies have shrunk ... no one even knows what a book *is*... (In 1965 my dad's stepmother owned not a single book... ) I notice that he says at 3:34 "... I'll try *and* answer it..." Of course he means "I'll try *to* answer it.
haha "i speak in complete sentences - thats unamerican" My friend chafes me, the vidal fan, with protestations that gore is "pretentious" in his language. Now I have a direct quote by the man himself to employ the next time my friend pulls out his sophistic argument.
Vidal is almost always fun to listen to. ... vocabularies have shrunk ... no one even knows what a book *is*... (In 1965 my dad's stepmother owned not a single book... ) I notice that he says at 3:34 "... I'll try *and* answer it..." Of course he means "I'll try *to* answer it.
porcospino289 1 year ago
haha "i speak in complete sentences - thats unamerican" My friend chafes me, the vidal fan, with protestations that gore is "pretentious" in his language. Now I have a direct quote by the man himself to employ the next time my friend pulls out his sophistic argument.
WhenLilacsLast 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this
beseriousplease 1 year ago