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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Jul 2015
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      13. Conversely, according to Kempton, Vidal was more stereotypically masculine: "detached, tough, cold and calculating in battle."

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Jul 2015
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      14. Kempton: Vidal controlled the argument by "the incitement of an excess of someone else's false masculinity."

      1 reply 3 retweets 11 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Jul 2015
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      15. What Kempton said about Vidal versus Buckley also applies to Vidal versus Mailer. Vidal knew how to get under skin of opponents.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Jul 2015
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      16. What Vidal realized is that violence is failure. Buckley threatened to punch out Vidal & lost. Mailer did head-butt Vidal and lost.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Jul 2015
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      17. Vidal after being physically attacked by Mailer. "Once again, words fail Norman Mailer."

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Jul 2015
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      18. In sum, Gore Vidal was much more of man than William F. Buckley. This indisputable fact reflects badly on Vidal.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Jul 2015
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      19. In other ways, Buckley and Vidal reflect the narcissism of small differences: elite, pseudo-aristos, isolationist & Old Right origins.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Jul 2015
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      20. But perhaps precisely because of their shared origins, Vidal knew exactly which buttons to hit to set Buckley off.

      3 replies 4 retweets 8 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Jul 2015
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      21. Buckley's weakness was that in his conventional morality he thought he could shame Vidal by calling him perverted, degenerate, & "queer"

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Jul 2015
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      22. Buckley miscalculated. Impressive, radical thing about Vidal was he had absolutely no sense of shame or guilt about his sexual practices

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Jul 2015

      23. The true extent of Vidal's sexual radicalism has yet to be appreciated. He preceded Stonewall & felt no common cause with "gay rights"

      2:24 PM - 31 Jul 2015 from Toronto, Ontario
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Jul 2015
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          24. Vidal didn't see himself as a member of a gay community needing rights but as a man with appetites that deserved freedom.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Jul 2015
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          25. Vidal's sexual politics were in essence aristocratic, like an 18th century libertine or Roman Senator. That made him unshakable.

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        1. Fyodor‏ @Fyodor32768 31 Jul 2015
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          @HeerJeet he sprang from a certain tradition of aristocratic freedom or immunity from sexual mores.

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        1. Geri Jeter‏ @GeriJeter 31 Jul 2015
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          @HeerJeet @jwomack Vidal was one of my heroes. I met him when he was running for Senate in CA. He sat down & we chatted for 10min. Fun.

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