Contents

Critical Praise for Gore Vidal and Palimpsest

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Palimpsest

The Small Bedroom at Merrywood

The Desire and the Successful Pursuit of the Whole

Dah

Dot

Briefly, Schools, War

“Today My Nerves Are Shattered. But I Am Indomitable!”

Guatemala

Dancers: An Interval

“Gene Collins”

Rome and the Glorious Bird

The Guest of the Blue Nuns

Paris, Proust’s Whorehouse, Gide, Bowles, and Isherwood

London, E. M. Forster, as well as Friends-to-Be

“I Was the Last King-Emperor, You Know”

“Now You Owe Me a Dollar”

At Home on the Hudson in the Cold War

To Do Well What Should Not Be Done at All

London, Nina

The Twenty-ninth New York Congressional District

Thirteen Green Pages with Hindsight Added

Getting Out

Getting Back

Section: E Lot 293½, Subdivisions 2 and 4

Photographs

Index

Photo Credits