Myra-Breckinridge-Gore-Vidal

listen Buck he says tough as nails quote if you dont give mea job I am going to announce to the world that Buck Lonersnephew became his niece two years ago in Copenhagenand that will fix your wagon in this town unquote thatsblackmail said Flagler junior but nobody paid him any mindOK Myra I said you win end quote then she was all smilesagain I knew youd do the right thing Uncle Buck and I canhelp you I really can Jesus God what am I going to do nowwith this mad freak taking over my life and running theAcademy that I built up on dreams and hopes which shebelieves in de stroying by telling everybody whats wrongwith him if I could get away with it I would kill her strike thatperiod paragraph 37 Tomorrow is moving day. I haverented a house just above Santa Monica Canyon. A superbview of the Pacific Palisades somewhat compensates forthe inevitable view of that despicable body of water,drowning the horizon to the west and all Asia. So now I sitfor the last time looking out upon the giant turning womanwho holds her sombrero like a benediction over those whopass beneath her on the Strip. I am not at all certain what todo about Mary-Ann. I know that I want her to live with mealways. I know that I want to possess her entirely, body aswell as mind; yet I puzzle myself, and Randolph has been nohelp at all. He has, incidentally, decided to stay on for onemore week but of course that one week will become alifetime. He is made for Hollywood and Hollywood is madefor him, particularly now that he has discovered the WilWright Ice Cream Parlors. This morning Randolph againchallenged my theory of sex. He maintains that the desire to