Dingo the Dissident

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Sunday, 28 June 2026

Gore Vidal :

"If you have known one person
you have known them all."

– Palimpsest, p.5
"Of course, I am not so sure
that I have known even one person well,
but as the Greeks sensibly believed,
should you get to know yourself,
you will have penetrated as much
of the human mystery as anyone
need ever know."

"What every teacher regards
as the worst perversion of all:

autodidactism.

– Idem, p.81

Good on ye, Gore !  I'm with you there
as in many of your attitudes.

But I consider
your kind of [homo]sexuality –
penetrative and emotionless –
to be disgusting.

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