Gore's rosebud

[Henry M]

Excellent! Smart, eloquent man, that Mr. V.! And thanks for the 
clarification.

> Date:          Thu, 27 Feb 97 12:00:46 EST
> From:          John Boylan <AP201165 at BROWNVM.brown.edu>
> Subject:       Gore's rosebud
> To:            pynchon-l at waste.org

> Paul Mackin:
> 
> >I don't have Charles S's Vidal essays (see below) to compare MY
> >cryptic rosebud quote to, but here's mine from V's "Plastic
> >Fiction" in the July 15,
> > 1976 issue of the The New York Review. It's at the end of a
> > paragraph
> >characterizing and quoting widely from GR. (suppose to represent
> >outlandish stuff I guess) "'Submit Gottfried. Give it all up. See
> >where she takes you. Think of the first time I fucked you . . .
> >Your little rosebud bloomed.'" Hard to believe that it is close to
> >a decade since that pretty moss tea-rose was first forced, as it
> >were, in my greenhouse.
> 
> >Wonderfully poetic final sentence, but what can we make of it? What
> >is Vidal saying to us?
> 
> And I reply :
> 
> Vidal is alluding to scene in 'Myra Breckinridge' in which dildoed
> Myra (formerly Myron) is enjoying the anal favors of a hetero
> stuntman. The stuntman's anus is referred to as a rosebud.
> 
> Vidal, I guess, is saying that he is the first to make novelistic
> use of 'rosebud' in this anal context.

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