Posted on 08/01/2012 4:37:16 AM PDT by Perdogg
Gore Vidal, the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization, died on Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, where he moved in 2003, after years of living in Ravello, Italy. He was 86.
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Have no pity on his evil soul... he was warned the same as all of us. He turned his back on GOD... now it is HIS turn.
LLS
He was also one of the many people taken in by Truman Capote.
I understand your sentiment, but I don’t think you understand grace. If you are a born-again believer, it’s only because of God’s grace. But for the grace of God, Vidal’s fate would be my own. That’s the message of Scripture.
I remember seeing that broadcast live! It was really something. I was pretty young then...
Brilliant and articulate analysis, NB. It makes me ponder whether the nihilism followed his ideology or his homosexuality. Was he a nihilist because he started out hating morality as a matter of conscience or because it justified being gay? I suspect the latter. After all, where does a young person find hatred against a decent society absent some underlying antagonism? One may cite the nihilism prevalent in today’s hard left, which is not (known to be) universally gay, as proof that it is ideologically driven in most cases. But today’s left came of age after Gore and his ilk made hatred of America and decency fashionable.
Either way, when I read that Gore died, I said Thank G-d! He was a truly evil man.
I was pretty young then, too. I hope I don’t look as old as that film.
LLS
This guy wrote odd fiction,was a homosexual and a disgusting anti-American quisling propagandist who grew up in the cesspool of DC and educated at Sidwell Friends and St Albans..... ugh...
don't really care, my car needs a new radiator and some belts changed. NOW that's important.
capote is also a Sun sitter.
LLS
capote is also a Sun sitter.
LLS
Who bored people silly.
I don't understand why boring is considered "profound literature". Boring is boring. And GV raised boring to new heights.
Karen: So you read Liza's paper I guess.
General Miller: I am a voracious reader. I'm the Gore Vidal of the Pentagon.
Karen: Gore's gay.
General Miller: No he's not.
Karen: I beg to differ but...
General Miller: He's gay? Cos I've been saying that Gore Vidal line a lot.
Karen: He is gay.
General Miller: Guess I'd better stop saying that then.
Gore Vidal is iconic for the effete, elitist, chablis-and-brie crowd at the Times. A poofy eunuch whose mouth (and pen) constantly wrote checks his muscle couldn’t back up, he had all the virtues the Left embraces: he was pretentious, he was generous with other peoples’ money, he hated this country, he produced nothing concrete, and he looked like a ghoul.
So he comes back to the US to die. We should ship his wasted corpse back to Italy to rot.
I remember seeing that. I watched Buckley eviscerate that pompous, impotent pinko while all he could do is sputter and fume.
Great “wordsmith” HE was ...
Well said — as usual.
His essays on film and books were particularly wonderful. And funny as hell! My generation of theatre and tv people loved to see him on Johnny Carson where he held court with such wit and disdain.
I never agreed with any of his political opinions about modern-day America. But he did warn that the breakup of the Soviet Union would cause the Muslim world to rise up. He said this shortly after the wall came down. I thought he was nuts but I guess not.
It’s too late to pray for a man once he’s dead. “It is appointed unto man once to die, and then the judgment.” His soul is in the Lord’s hands...where it always was.
I am particularly fond of that passage you mentioned. Christ’s command to His disciples to shake the dust from their feet is a real lesson for Christians today. We need to accept there are people who will never believe or like us and move on. We should stand for the truth regardless of the opinions or actions of others.
By the way, I have trouble hating anyone. Obama rises as close to hatred as I ever get, but at his core, Obama is just another confused and profoundly pathethic lost man. He believes himself wise, but he’s a fool. He puts on an act that convinces some, but I suspect he’s a lonely, bitter, and scared little man. Like Pharoah, I believe the Lord raised Him to great heights so that he would ultimately take a great fall. “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?” I pity all lost men. I can’t imagine traversing this life without the knowledge that I am eternally safe in Christ. I praise Him for the mercy and grace He has shown me!
Astute observations well expressed.
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