Virgin Islands: A Dependency of United States : Essays 1992-1997This is the first new Gore Vidal collection since Armageddon and A View From the Diners Club. Among the subjects covered are Mark Twain, John Updike, Bill Clinton, Harry Truman and George Washington. ' |
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Page 65
... sexual infantilism , fondness for small girls , he declares mysteriously that this is ' not what I say ' . But it is what he says and presumably means . The Jesuits like to say : " The wise man never lies . ' But in the army of my day ...
... sexual infantilism , fondness for small girls , he declares mysteriously that this is ' not what I say ' . But it is what he says and presumably means . The Jesuits like to say : " The wise man never lies . ' But in the army of my day ...
Page 101
... sexual , the affairs with the various men , is still incomprehensible to us . How can one sleep with men - [ Mann uses the word Herren , which means not ' men ' but ' gentlemen ' . Is this Mann being satiric ? A rhetorical question ...
... sexual , the affairs with the various men , is still incomprehensible to us . How can one sleep with men - [ Mann uses the word Herren , which means not ' men ' but ' gentlemen ' . Is this Mann being satiric ? A rhetorical question ...
Page 168
... sexual politics - as I write these words I cannot believe just how absurd a country has to be to insist on so categorizing its inmates . Cunnilingus over here ... buggery to the right ... frottage on the floor ... keep moving ...
... sexual politics - as I write these words I cannot believe just how absurd a country has to be to insist on so categorizing its inmates . Cunnilingus over here ... buggery to the right ... frottage on the floor ... keep moving ...
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