[lbo-talk] Gore Vidal's Believe It or Not

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jun 23 09:28:03 PDT 2006


On Jun 23, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Carl Remick wrote:


> "I end up with big houses because I have so many books," [Gore]
> Vidal says. "If I didn't have the 8,000 volumes, I'd be in a one-
> room flat somewhere."
>
> <http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1095838.ece>

Speaking of Gore Vidal on abodes, he unleashed one of the great witticisms of all time, when observing Henry Kissinger in a museum, studying a Bosch painting of hell, he said: sssh, he's apartment hunting.

Doug



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