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ecame Christian Scientists we tend to believe that whathappens in this life is for the best. Although I nearly lost mymind and tried to kill myself when I learned that my breastshad been removed (Dr. Mengers had been forced to takethis step because my life was endangered by the siliconewhich, as a result of the accident, threatened to enter thebloodstream), I now realize that it was the best thing thatever happened to me if only because once Mary-Annrealized that I was really Myron Breckinridge, her attitudetoward me changed completely. Two weeks after I left thehospital where I spent my long convalescence andrehabilitation, we were married in Vegas, and so were ableat last to settle down and live a happy and normal life,raising dogs and working for Planned Parenthood.Incidentally, I noticed a quotation scribbled in one of themargins of the notebook. Something she (I hate to say "I"!)copied from some book about Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Idon't suppose it's giving away any secrets to say that likeso many would-be intellectuals back East Myra neveractually read books, only books about books. Anyway thequotation still sort of appeals to me. It is about howhumanity would have been a lot happier if it had kept to "themiddle ground between the indolence of the primitive stateand the questing activity to which we are prompted by ourselfesteem." I think that is a very fine statement and onewhich, all in all, I'm ready to buy, since it is a proven fact thathappiness, like the proverbial bluebird, is to be found inyour own backyard if you just know where to look.
The EndBooks by Gore VidalNovelsWILLIWAW IN A YELLOW WOOD THE CITY AND THPILLAR THE SEASON OF COMFORT A SEARCH FOTHE KING DARK GREEN, BRIGHT RED THJUDGMENT OF PARIS MESSIAH JULIAWASHINGTON, D.C. MYRA BRECKINRIDGEShort StoriesA THIRSTY EVILPlaysVISIT TO A SMALL PLANET THE BEST MANEssaysROCKING THE BOAT
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The novel being dead, there is no p
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you in the course of our common voy
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first... But there is to be no spec
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Buck Loner is not the man he was wh
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wrote an entire poem praising limes
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Myron wrote me. Great suffering at
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literature in the post-Gutenberg ag
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irrevocably committed. Or as Diotim
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come to Saint Louis and later to th
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shes making it with Rusty Godowsky
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had they succeeded they could never
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odor of deodorant mingled with toba
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saddened by the signs of decay. The
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Seated at a table in the Academy ca
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has fled and only the television co
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entirely typical of the nation. The
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it. Artistic integrity demands cons
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play at flattery. By the time I'm f
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will ride the ranges of the world's
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ecause she does not realize that sh
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only hope at this point proving she
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was at one with all creation. The n
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the necessary elimination of Hitler
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Fact, it's just to be with Rusty th
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devote to my life's real work, comp
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world of your ever being a major st
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mean the ribs are all inside me tha
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which a good two inches were in pla
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now been revealed, the rest must wa
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un out crying to beat the band but
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him in New York New Jersey or Con n
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looked at me with such frightened s
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the same size as it is when erect,
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never won! Never! To think that a g
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even love. The plan requires it. Al
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in this notebook, a most liberating
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stage: mystical elation. I understo
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BUCK LONER REPORTSRecording Disc No
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actually laughed at Myra Breckinrid
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Dover. "Lady!" He snorted. I leapt
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almost too beautiful for this world
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unpleasantly curved beer-belly, a l
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of course take my revenge upon him
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instinct to dominate in traditional
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theres no doubt she was involved de
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kind of person who will then create
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allowing any agents or professional
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phrase, "a rape of the penis." Unti
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instance, since the death of Marily
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lunch... I'll pick your brains. You
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calling him again? MYRA: It's Myra
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doctor because I must find out the
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instant I wondered if perhaps I had
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themselves. Yet the will to prevail
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met Mary-Ann and Rusty at the Cock
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forearms, coiling about the thick b
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supposed to do, yes. That's what we
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marvelous if fiery fate. "But what
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no more children into the world. Bu
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confused in the paper works departm
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Mary-Ann, she'll tell you I did. I
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first response. "It would just kill
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"Exactly," I said, ready now to beg
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embarrassment, for he has the Ameri
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more where that came from," I said
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pulling up trousers and shorts in f
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eing such a baby!" Delicately I too
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"Did she make the advances?" "Yes.
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left hand up the inside of his left
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see how I can omit this part of the
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to him that I could smell the stron
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down at me and the loose-stemmed ro
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his bonds, but failed. Then he did
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30I sit now at the card table. Thro
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trying to extract a straight bit of
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me at every level, there's no doubt
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nothing, and I got angry and then h
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