We hear a lot about angry young men, but Vidal, in his later years, raged not only against the dying of the light, but against almost any moving target in his eye-line.Ī master of the epigram, Gore Vidal claimed that ‘nyone stupid enough to worry about how he’ll be remembered deserves to be forgotten.’ Yet now, six years after he died at the age of 86, he shows no sign of being forgotten, nor even becoming irrelevant. If anything, Gore Vidal became angrier about the state of the world as he, in his own words, began ‘moving towards the door marked “exit.”’ Thundering in his last decade against the perceived ignorance, folly and greed of the post-9/11 world via articles, pamphlets and interviews, he refused to go quietly. Most people mellow in the autumn of their years assertions that were once held with an iron grip usually being reassessed and relaxed, as one comes to accept the natural imperfections of life and one’s fellow human beings. The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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