Myra-Breckinridge-Gore-Vidal

Em pathy class well I dont think no woman has ever spoketo me like that certainly no man would dare for fear ofgetting hisself beat to a pulp all I could say then was wellyou watch your step thats all and as for taking this placeaway from me I need to know a whole lot more about youthan I do why I dont even know whether you was ever reallymar nied to that fag Myron well I suppose I did go too far onthat one for she hauled off and let me have it right in thekisser and I saw stars because this wasnt no girls slap nosir it was a goddam fist with what felt like a roll of quartersin it I nearly fell over it was such a jolt and the noise mustvebeen like a pistol going off for the kids all stoppedpretending to be billboards and stared at us like we wasputting on a show which is the way she handled it for coolas can be she said to the kids I quote now that is theclassic stage slap delivered in such a way that though theperson being slapped really seems to be hit hard he isnt itsall fake later Ill show you how its done its a trick first usedon stage by Miss Patricia Collinge in The Little Foxes sothank you Uncle Buck for the demonstration unquote andwith that the bitch went back to teaching her class and Icome straight back here to the office and canceled my appointment for massage I am too shook up and then phonedto Flagler and Flagler to ask if theres any report on her fromthe detective in New York they say the only thing theyve sofar found is that Myron really was a fag quite well known inwhat they call the underground movie set and its thought hekilled hisseif probably because of Myra about who they cantfind out anything except there is no record of her marrying