Not P but Gore

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Right!

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> That is, it was posted as cited by Alexander Chee.
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> 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,
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> 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>
> *Cc:* pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 1, 2012 3:40 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: Not P but Gore
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> from Alexander Chee, writer...
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> 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
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> Good one!  Is that from a best-of list?
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> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> ‎"It's a dangerous thing, ambition. Ruined Mickey Mouse's whole career." -
> Myra Breckinridge, by Gore Vidal
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