‘It’s not intellectually respectable, I know. It’s an archaism. All I have are these persistent intuitions.
In Nabokov’s brightly mournful late novella Transparent Things (1972), flighty Julia takes the stolid hero, Hugh Person, to the avant-garde play that everyone is talking about
what Norman Mailer was going on about when he said that the attack would prove salutary, because only ceaseless warfare could maintain the virility of the US male
lol
With Gore it’s just a fatuous posture. With Noam, I’m sorry to say, it’s heartfelt. He just doesn’t like America.
obviously i disagree with him politically but this is still funny
If a conspiracy theory traduces America, then Gore’ll subscribe to it.
vidal. lol
