Myra-Breckinridge-Gore-Vidal

theres no doubt she was involved deeply with Myronbecause though I didnt know him I sure as hell knewGertrude and at one point Myra let slip the fact that shepersonally had always found Gertrude hell particularly theway she used to save worthless things like newspapersand string and keep the icebox jammed with food that hadgone bad that she was too damned miserly to throw outwell Myra didnt make that up and we both agreed thatanybody who had a meal at Ger trudes was courtingptomaine but then when I said Gertrude really loved that boyof hers IVlyra frowned and said oh no she didnt Uncle Buckshe just loved herself well dont we all I said no she said notto that degree unquote but she wouldnt open up any moreobviously the two girls did not get on hard to say which isthe worst no not hard at all Myra is the worst woman I haveever met exclamation mark paragraph she then asked meif I had had news of Rusty Godowsky and I said no but thatour students often disappear for a time like that and thenshow up again like nothings happened but she said shewas concerned because of poor Mary Ann being soheartbroken Mary Ann hell Tm sure Myras got her eye onthat stud like half the girls on campus and is nowdemonstrating the edginess of a filly in heat anyway I said Iwould look into the matter of his disappearance beginningby calling up my friend the Sheriff a good Republican andask him if the boy has been incarcerated in a hoosegowsince he was on probation to begin with period paragraphthen Myra asks me for permission to look at the medicalreports on the students which are kept in my outer office