Gore Vidal (141 page)

p. 77
:
“drop out here”
: James Henderson/Gene Vidal, 4/4/1935; “as soon as he returns”: Vidal/Henderson, 7/2/1935. WY.

p. 80
:
“the Living Statues”
:
SH
, 15.

p. 81
:
“always islands”
:
US
, 1075–76.

p. 84
:
“Miss Martin”
:
An Illustrated History of St. Albans School
, ed. Smith Hempstone. Washington: 1981, 61.

p. 84
:
“gentle grave manner”
:
M
, 82–83

p. 87
:
“We declare ourselves”
: “Declaration of Independence,” unpub. ms., nd. W.

p. 90
:
“in the woods above”
:
M
, 32, 84.

p. 91
:
“kingdom of heaven”
:
SH,
27.

p. 91
:
“the red-faced”
:
SH
, 40–41.

pp. 95
–
96
:
“fascist guards”
:
US
, 413–14; “almost as worried as”:
M
, 36,
SH
, 52.

pp. 96
–
97
:
“That jaw …
combinazione”
: Stanton, 60–61; “fascinating primitive … driven off:
M
, 86–87.

p. 97
:
“Longboats”
:
M
, 87.

Chapter Four

INTERVIEWS: Wilson Hurley, 12/13/1995; Oscar Steege, 10/11/1995; Alan Meyer, 11/22/1995; Sally Vidal, 3/28/1996; Katharine [Kit] Vidal, 2/15/1996; Hugh [Yusha] Auchincloss, 6/6/1996; Hamilton Bissell, 10/12/1995; Ransom Lynch, 10/12/1995; A. K. Lewis, 10/4/1995; Tish Baldrige, 7/nd/1996; Edes F. Talman, 6/nd/1996; Michael Dorn, 4/23/1996.

ENDNOTES

p. 99
:
“boys became men”
:
When Los Alamos Was a Ranch School
. Los Alamos Historical Society, 1974, 9.

p. 103
:
“The desert suddenly gave … sage-scented”
: GV,
The Smithsonian Institution
, 1998, 65.

p. 105
:
“T. recognized”
:
Smithsonian
, 75.

p. 106
:
“I am proposing”
: T. P. Gore/GV, 5/4/1950. O.

p. 109
:
“Intense blue sky”
:
Smithsonian
, 61; “Walking”:
Harper's Bazaar
, 10/1945.

p. 113
:
“Aeronautic Consultant and New York Girl”
:
New York Herald Tribune
, 12/15/1939. WY.

p. 118
:
“He's the only person”
: GV, “H. L. Mencken The Journalist,”
US
, 761–62.

p. 120
:
“Exeter Fair … there are no rules”
:
The “E” Book of Phillips Exeter Academy
, XLVI, 1942–43, 61.

p. 121
:
“looks 80 … get out”
: Otis Pease, excerpts from unpub.
Diary
, in
Exeter 1943, Fifty Years 1993
. 10/7/1940–10/13/1940, 175.

p. 123
:
“been elected to”
: Luther Hill/GV, nd/1940. W.

p. 124
:
“would pull”
:
SH
, 60.

p. 124
:
“Soldiers of America”
: John Hale Stutesman, “The Saga of the Veterans of Future Wars,”
The Nassau Sovereign
, 4/1941, 9; “Communists because”: ibid, 28.

p. 126
:
“I am crazy about … divine looking”
: Rosalind Rust, unpub.
Diary
, 1/11/1941, 1/19/1941.

p. 128
:
“there are, however”
: GV/“Communication”/editors of the
Exonian
, nd/1941. W.

p. 132
:
“Go on upstairs”
:
M
, 67–71.

Chapter Five

INTERVIEWS: Wilcomb E. Washburn, 10/10/1995; A. K. Lewis, 10/4/1995; Thomas McFarland, 12/6/1995; Nathaniel Davis, 9/22/1997; John Knowles, 7/22/1995; Tommy Auchincloss, 3/25/1997; Richard Poirier, 7/1/1996; Katharine Vidal, 2/15/1996.

ENDNOTES

p. 135
:
“about ten speeches”
: GV/T. P. Gore, 10/17/1941. O.

p. 136
:
“regardless of everything”
: GV/Gore, 10/17/1941. O.

p. 136
:
“Exeter commences”
: GV/Gore and Nina Kay Gore, 4/23/1942. O.

pp. 137
–
38
:
“denouncing that Jew”
:
US
, 929, 1087; “a dream showing”: Wilcomb Washburn, unpub.
Diary
, 5/3/1942.

pp. 138
–
39
:
“to stop all outside … wonderful”
: GV/Gore and Nina Kay Gore, 4/23/1942. O; “These poems”: Nat Davis, “Introduction” to GV, unpub. ms.,
Litany for the Living and Other Poems
, 1942; “Putnam would probably”: Washburn,
Diary
, 4/19/1942.

p. 139
:
“packed and sweltering”
: Pease, 182.

p. 140
:
“My wonder that”
: Washburn,
Diary
, 3/18/1942; “went over to”: Washburn,
Diary
, 5/17/1942; “Instead of studying,” Washburn,
Diary
, 5/31/1942.

p. 141
:
“Vidal stood out”
: Pease,
Diary
, 182; “picked up”: Washburn,
Diary
, 6/5/1942.

p. 142
:
“busy inventing”
:
M
, 91.

p. 143
:
“The country is really”
: Nina Gore/GV, nd/1942. W.

pp. 143
–
44
:
“I've been doing”
: GV/Gene Vidal, 9/nd/1942; “That was no pose”: Washburn,
Diary
, 11/4/1942; “Gave a speech”: GV/T. P. Gore and Nina Kay Gore, 11/22/1942. O;
“Vidal more bombastic”: Washburn,
Diary
, 1/17/1943; “Isn't it amazing”: Washburn,
Diary
, 12/6/42.

pp. 144
–
45
:
“There never would be”
: Washburn,
Diary
, 11/19/1942; “to lead the opposition”:
The Exonian
, 10/28/1942; “At heart”: Washburn,
Diary
, 2/8/1943; “a congenital idiot”: GV/Gore and Nina Kay Gore, 11/22/1942. O.

p. 145
:
“Vidal has long talk”
: Washburn,
Diary
, 2/16/1943.

p. 146
:
“the best thing is”
: GV/Gene Vidal, 11/22/1942.

p. 147
:
“Vidal tremendously worried … gusto”
: Washburn,
Diary
, 12/9/1942.

p. 148
:
“We went downstairs”
:
M
, 32–35.

p. 149
:
“I cannot choose”
: Gore/GV, 12/10/1942. O.

pp. 150
–
51
:
“Vidal has a little X”
: Washburn,
Diary
, 3/1/1942; “Vidal said that either”: 12/15/1942; “Instead of cleaning”: Washburn,
Diary
, 2/3/1943; “It's funny how”: Washburn,
Diary
, 4/19/1943; “I wonder if”: Washburn,
Diary
, 11/29/1942.

p. 151
:
“What are you doing … happiness”
: Washburn,
Diary
, 12/17/1942.

p. 153
:
“apparently strained”
: Washburn,
Diary
, 2/2/1943.

p. 156
:
“will definitely graduate”
: GV/Vidal, nd/late 1942 or early 1943.

p. 159
:
“pitied the fact”
: Washburn,
Diary
, 1/6/1943; “Because he's just”: Washburn,
Diary
, 4/29/1943.

p. 161
:
“Those attending”
:
The Exonian
, 3/10/1943.

p. 162
:
“very effectively”
: Otis Pease,
Diary
, 189.

pp. 163
–
64
:
“a jealous inspiration … why I do it”
: Nina Gore/GV, nd/1943. W; “onto an ancient train”:
M
, 93–94; “now a goddamned engineer”: GV/Vidal, 9/nd/1943.

pp. 164
–
65
:
“I compose sonnets”
: GV/Vidal, 9/21/1943; “having a fine time”: GV/Vidal, 9/nd/1943.

p. 165
:
“I always seem to catch”
: GV/Vidal, 9/21/1943; “very unpleasant … a term”: GV/Vidal, 10/nd/1943; “Maybe I should have”: GV/Vidal, 10/nd/1943.

Chapter Six

INTERVIEWS: Sally Vidal, 3/28/1996; Jean Stein, 6/4/1996; John Tebbel, 11/13/1995; Wilcomb Washburn, 10/10/1995; Katharine Vidal, 2/15/1996; Betty Pollock, 3/5/1997; Carrington Tutwiler, 9/26/1996.

ENDNOTES

pp. 167
–
68
:
“Uncle Pick”
: GV/Gene Vidal, 11/nd/1943; “I couldn't be more upset”: Nina Gore/GV, nd/1943. W.

p. 168
:
“human again”
: GV/Vidal, 11/nd/1943.

p. 169
:
“confident that he will like it”
: GV/Vidal, early/nd/1944.

p. 169
:
“I'm really going … unique”
: GV/Vidal, 12/nd/1943.

p. 171
:
“When I was CQ”
:
M
, 94.

p. 171
:
“a wonderful trip … in time”
: GV/Vidal, early/nd/1944; “after I get”: early/nd/1944.

p. 173
:
“met everybody”
: GV/Vidal, early/nd/1944.

pp. 174
–
75
:
“Smokey, raw-wood”
:
M
, 95; “sunny Alaska”: GV/Vidal, 12/28/1944.

p. 175
:
“a frontier town”
: GV/Vidal, 1/12/1945; “either (a) in command … coasting along”: GV/Vidal, 1/12/1945; “Am getting to work”: GV/Vidal, 1/12/1945.

p. 176
:
“which is remote”
: Eugene Walter, unpub. ms. nd. W; “we soldiers were briefed”:
SH
, 41–42.

pp. 176
–
77
:
“a fine fellow … a few feet away”
: GV/Vidal, 1/26/1945; “it has been extremely”: GV/Vidal, 2/3/1945.

pp. 177
–
78
:
“When the weather”
: GV/Vidal, 2/10/1945; “In fact—now … one hell of a game”: GV/Vidal, 2/10/1945; “in for OCS”: GV/Vidal, 2/3/1945; “I continue to discharge”: GV/Vidal, 2/22/1945.

pp. 178
–
79
:
“it's good to hear”
: GV/Vidal, 2/10/1945; “Give [Kit] my best”: GV/Vidal, 2/22/1945; “In another 2 months … on a run”: GV/Gene, 3/nd/1945.

pp. 179
–
80
:
“In fact, I'm apt to be”
: GV/Vidal, 3/30/1945; “They've been testing”: GV/Vidal, 4/3/1945.

p. 180
:
“It seemed impossible”
:
SH
, 72; “I thought your comment”: T. P. Gore/GV, 5/15/1945. W.

p. 185
:
“I'll never forgive myself”
:
M
, 37.

p. 186
:
“who looked more like”
:
US
, 414–15.

p. 187
:
“early adolescent self”
:
US
, 419.

p. 188
:
“And so to bed”
:
M
, 104.

p. 189
:
“richer than yours”
:
M
, 105.

p. 190
:
“So Boris Karloff”
:
SH
, 96.

p. 192
:
“should be finished”
: GV/Kimon Friar, 10/19/1945. P.

p. 193
:
“I envision a collection”
: GV/Friar, 10/19/1945. P.

p. 196
:
“I sit with Dah”
:
M
, 60.

p. 201
:
“You look dramatic … sensual mouth”
:
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Four, 1944–1947
, ed. Gunther Stuhlmann, NY: 1971, 104.

Chapter Seven

INTERVIEWS: John Tebbel, 11/13/1995; Judith Jones, 12/1/1995; Carrington Tutwiler, 9/16/1996; John Macrae, 6/4/1995; Dominick Dunne, 6/19/1996; Mary Stevens, 10/20/1995.

ENDNOTES

p. 203
:
“Since our last”
: GV/Kimon Friar, nd/1945. P.

p. 203
:
“I think that Dutton”
: GV/Friar, 12/nd/1945. P; “He has great assurance”: Anaïs Nin,
Diary
, 105–6.

p. 204
:
“I do not want”
: Nin,
Diary
, 106.

p. 205
:
“his desperate need … fear of women”
: Nin,
Diary
, 125–26.

p. 206
:
“What I see in the”
: Nin,
Diary
, 125–26; “I have been busy”: GV/Carrington Tutwiler, 1/nd/1946.

pp. 206
–
7
:
“It's based on”
: GV/Tutwiler, 1/nd/1946; “I am very happy”: GV/Tutwiler, 2/nd/1946; “Coming down the road”: Nin/GV, summer/1946, “Under the Star of Writing, Letters about and to Gore Vidal, 1946–1961,”
Anaïs, An International Journal
, vol. 14 (1996), 43.

pp. 207
–
8
:
“My terminal leave”
: GV/Tutwiler, 2/nd/1946; “in civilian clothes … to die”: Nin,
Diary
, 121.

p. 208
:
“Being an editor”
: GV/Tutwiler, 2/nd/1946; “vivid creature”:
M
, 112–13.

p. 210
:
“My third book”
: GV/Tutwiler, 2/nd/1946.

p. 211
:
“How does it feel?”
:
M
, 100–111.

pp. 212
–
13
:
“pastry-pale”
:
M
, 114; “You can't be”:
M
, 114.

p. 214
:
“Gore and I decided”
: Nin,
Diary
, 135; “If only my grandmother”:
M
, 113.