Not P but Gore

[Mark Kohut]

That is, it was posted as cited by Alexander Chee. 
 
In my 'deranged' associative mind,--Right Ms. Maudlin?-- I was reminded of P's line about charisma.
Which, when you read the best response to the probable source (of P's remark)---Max Weber's
great essay Politics as a Vocation---
ripostes, basically, 
 
Only if you use charisma to get ahead......
 
 
 

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 From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> 
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Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: Not P but Gore
  

from Alexander Chee, writer...
 
Touching response from one of his friends who wrote that neighbors gave him a
copy of Myra B. when he was twelve, which he grew up to think was their way
of acknowledging their awareness of his homosexulaity........
 

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 From: Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: Not P but Gore
  

Good one!  Is that from a best-of list?



On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:


>‎"It's a dangerous thing, ambition. Ruined Mickey Mouse's whole career." - Myra Breckinridge, by Gore Vidal
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