ext_15647 ([identity profile] snidegrrl.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] turbogrrl 2008-03-28 05:09 pm (UTC)

I ran across this today and thought you might want to read it if you hadn't.

http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1000/vidal/essay.html

Surprisingly, Time and Newsweek, though each put him on the "book page," were not bad, though one thought him "surrealist" and the other a "master of fantasy"; he was, of course, a true realist, who believed "that only a certain prosaic solidity can give birth to creativity: fantasy is like jam; you have to spread it on a solid slice of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing, like jam, out of which you can't make anything."

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