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Here’s a link to my post about it which links to my little essay lol. Gore Vidal is everything to me… a couple of months ago I also got really into Anaïs Nin because I see a lot of myself in her and I’ve already experienced significant transformative growth from her influence. I’m writing about that soon!

@taterhole

Feb 27, 2025

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@hhtthhtthhttht

Oh sick pi.fyi kismet lol. This was a great read, thank you for sharing. Really enjoyed your thoughts on constructing intellectual barriers to shield oneself from the horrors of intimacy… I know this too well. Even my briefly adopted stance of enlightened anti-intellectualism turned out to be the same barrier in a different packaging. Big respect to both of yours fearless faith in speaking your mind, I admire and envy it

Feb 27, 2025

@taterhole

hhtthhtthhttht thank you for taking the time to read and for your kind words!!! 🫶 it’s so crazy the lengths we can go to in order to build walls inside ourselves and the mental gymnastics and copium that leads to and a lot of people never escape it. Harrowing reminder… I feel you because I had a poptimism stage 💀 I would recommend reading his autobiography Palimpsest it’s really interesting because you can see him get soooo close and yet…. And that’s actually what led me to Anaïs Nin who for all of her problems was really successful in breaking out of that trap and fully embodying life

Feb 27, 2025

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On Gore Vidal: legacy of self

This just poured out of me over my morning coffee as I was reflecting on the transformation I’ve undergone over the last several years and very recent transformations I’ve entered into (more on that later when I write about my new muse)!
It’s about why Gore Vidal is so deeply important to me not just as a distant relative but as a role model and cautionary tale. I hope you enjoy and would love to hear your thoughts as always 💌
“Learning more about Vidal and absorbing his words, the sharpness and certainty of his opinions, I felt as if I had discovered a kindred spirit. I always felt like I was too much for people, too arrogant and self-possessed, too singular, too disagreeable, that these were all pathological aberrations I needed to correct and hopefully I could finally be normal someday—but seeing these traits in Gore Vidal made me feel proud because they were what made him who he was.“

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