Myra-Breckinridge-Gore-Vidal

felt a good deal better at the sight of the loot: three hundredand fifty thousand dollars is more than enough to financeme for the next few years while I finish Myron's work andbegin my own. Yes, I have decided to make aninvestigation in depth of the problem of communication inthe post-McLuhan world. Each day that I spend in thecompany of the students makes me more than ever awarethat a new world is being born without a single reliablewitness except me. I alone have the intuition as well as theprofound grasp of philosophy and psychology to trace forman not only what he is but what he must become, once hehas ceased to be confined to a single sexual role, to asingle person once he has become free to blend withothers, to exchange personalities with both men andwomen, to play out the most elaborate of dreams in a worldwhere there will soon be no limits to the human spirit's play.As I have been goddess, so others can be whatever theywant in this vast theatre we call the world where all bodiesand all minds will one day be at the disposal of everyone,and no one will read books for that is a solitary activity likegoing to the bathroom alone (it is the proliferation of privatebathrooms, which has, more than anything else, createdmodern man's sense of alienation from others of his kind:our ancestors bathed and shat together and, all in all,relished the sharing of their common natural functions) orlike making love alone if there are others available to sharethe body's pleasures. I see this new world whoseprophetess I am as clearly as I see this page on which Iscribble random notes while waiting for Buck and Charlie