Yes, Centre Right and Loony Right.

Anthony Clare would have had a field day with you! 🤣

Eeew. As a woman who has given birth to two sons and is not a pervert, I would be nauseated to listen to any more of it.

No. I am not twelve. I can see why you might ask. Aren't mothers and sons hardwired to find such thoughts repulsive after a certain age, though? It was my visceral reaction.

@@coreycox2345 You should read Myra Breckenridge. Trust me, you'll love it.

@@tarnopol Will do. If his books are half as impressive as his interviews, I will.

@@coreycox2345 His novels are good, but his essays ('Rocking the Boat', for one) are brilliant.

You have, he's called Peter Hitchens.

After Anthony Burgess died I knew that it was a matter of time before there would be no-one left in letters who could speak English.

It was Christopher Hitchens, not Peter.

@@petermitchell6348 Hitch died years before GV

I agree. As true today as it's ever been. I'm working on a book called "Do I know You?" Finger's crossed. XOX

OK, but it is clear that he doesn't understand or appreciate love.

Steven: Yes, Vidal was a great model. I wish we had him in today's world.

Robert Crawford he had a loving friendship with Howard Austen. I wouldn’t believe the front he put on.

@@rkrw576 On the contrary, GV was at war with a culture that despises love.

Yeah, well if you manage to get into a position like Gore. Otherwise insecure people wiith more clout than you will destroy you as you attempt it on a lower level.

You only believe you know. There is a difference. Happiness for some people equals misery for other people. Feelings, in general, are an enigma.

Not since the 80s I'm afraid.

The BBC have regrettably been overtaken by woke...

@@benphilips9918 What does 'woke' mean?

Thank you for your 'lengthy digression.' Despite 'Woke', you are still correct. Just change 'Brits' to 'Britons,' and I would be perfectly happy.

me too

Wonder what he would say about all the current insanity? Certain he would not approve of the censorship on social media.

True, but he explains why in the Melvyn Bragg interview South Gate 2008. It was because: he was brought up never to talk about yourself -- instead, be interested in listening to others; all his writing already conveys what he thinks and who he is; he holds no skeletons and does not lie; he believes psychology is not a category to be explained but lived, which makes him very much an existentialist.

@@thedolphin5428 Quite so. I remember a discussion regarding Ian Fleming, a man of the same generation. People commented that he was always embarrassed to talk about himself. It was not a topic that he found remotely interesting. He was not being modest, or secretive. It was simply not done among a certain class to self-examine and self-explain. It was viewed as somewhat common. In exactly the same way it was viewed as beneath the salt to be seen to exert any real effort to accomplish a task. Everything had to look like the swan upon the water, rather than examining the legs beating apace beneath. We should be wary of judging past ages through modern eyes.

Julie Sperber that’s the point of the show. Don’t think Vidal isn’t consumed by demons, he is

@@mariuszlubko8014 Rubbish. He's an open book. Extremely self aware, just not interested in talking about himself.

Didn't realize it was a game. Hard to outwit him. He cannot not be funny and witty.

@@jamesanthony5681 indeed!

lol. If you really think our mess started with W, you know neither about Gore Vidal's opinions nor much about history in general! How does it feel to be so myopic in your worldview?

totally agree with what gore says about love..since it is exactly the way i feel and see it...nice to have him on my side!:)

+Dan Engelke Yes Dan, he said "Madame de Gaulle means "happiness" ;)

"Madam means HAppiness."

Wow, that so explains him. Did you seriously do his chart? Excellent work.

Of course love is an illusion. It is a described and defined differentlh by every person. Therefore it is a subjective, self projection, ie an illusion, ie whatever you think it is.

As Biden leads us off to an economic depression and nuclear war. If you think Vidal would approve of this woke, leftist $hit show, you are insane.

Lol trauma doesn't turn you gay 😂😂😭

@@Ekalavya No, of course not...but trauma can make one avoidant and consider alternatives, and its the nature of his relationship modalities that he spoke of in some of his writings that made me wonder my point, particularly his physical liaisons elsewhere with other guys despite what sounded like an intimate but non-physical relationship with Howard. For the record, I'm not suggesting a cause of homosexuality as that does not intrigue anymore or less as to why people are heterosexual...and I'm sure you understand that plenty of purely hetro guys can be terrible misogynists. I'm not in the least suggesting Vidal was in anyway misogynist, just perhaps somewhat avoidant in his own chosen way, but Gore certainly is an intriguing intellect and person, bold in so many ways that what may have been a vulnerability in his earlier years turn into strengths. Frankly, regardless of Vidal's preferences, by his own words, it kind of saddened me reading how his early loss of his close friend due to war seemed to have affected his ability for physical intimacy within a relationship later. I think our current world would benefit from more Gore Vidal's, particularly in leadership positions he knew so well. Reckon he would have dwarfed JFK.

As Gore would say himself -- Homosexuality and heterosexuality are both just a figment of mind.

He also worked hard: books, plays, essays, movies...and a professional wit and commentator.

He never went to college, and since the age of 17 when he entered WWII, he essentially was on his own.

Because it IS...

Sounds like a wanker to me.

Read and listen to more of him. You will better understand how wrong you are.

you mean "stillborn". No space inbetween. The space makes it two words with an entirely different meaning.

lol....

@@herberthuncke1288 I was an only twin.

buzz kirschner : while you will be remembered for centuries, of course.

have you read any of Vidal’s books? Palimpsest, start with

Read his essays. They're brilliant and will be his tickets to posterity. His novels are very good also.

@@stevecox7075 hahahahaha, poor Buzz.

@@bluetoad2001 I've read quite a few, and he is extremely interesting. I would suggest that your comment is an example of projection.