A hilarious review in today's UK Daily Mail on Gore Vidal's latest

[Joe Chi Minh]

book, Point to Point Navigation, by their literary reviewer, Peter Lewis.

Here are a few of Vidal's gems as quoted by Lewis in his article. It begins:

"We have grown so accustomed to being hectored from Washington by powerful men of breath-taking naivety that I forgot what it was like to be addressed by intelligent, civilised Americans.They still exist. Gore Vidal, in particular, still reflects and writes in superb English."

(snip)

'Liberal'", now a pejorative word, he observes, "is interpreted to mean 'narcissistic'".

'A concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, apparently, while greed is a sign of the highest altruism. To reverse the meanings of words is a small price to pay for our vast freedom to conform and consume.'

(snip)

'You're like a visiting ambassador', I once said to him, 'but where do you represent?'

'Sanity', he replied smoothly, a small country, but there are those of us who love it.'

Beat that for hilarious irony.

(I believe the copyright in the article is owned by a company called, Solo Syndications. The paragraphs are very small, so I ventured to quote 5 of them).

[zeemike]

1. Thanks for that I love Gore Vidal. n/t

[scarletwoman]

2. Is there a link you could post? (nt)

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. Unfortunately, no. I looked for it on their website, and even googled

the reviewer's name without success.

I wanted to enquire about posting (more of the article) on here, but was told by the Mail nght-desk person that I'd need to contact Solo Syndication on Monday.

Anyway, they were the really witty parts: his quotations.

[GreenTea]

3. "The paragraphs are very small, so I ventured to quote 5 of them"

Vidal, what a brilliant line....he never fails to dazzle and enlighten with his keen wit, exposing observations & insightful knowledge, whether it be about history or human nature.

I've always been a great admirer of Gore Vidal's writings & lectures. (I also voted for him when he ran for US Senator).

I'd recognize his work anywhere.