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                                             January   22, 2011
                                             September 19, 2013

Gore Vidal is a good source of
gossipy stuff about queer sex
among the Beat deities including
the often reticient Kerouac:


All quotes below are from:
                                                       EASTERN_HORN
  "Palimpset" (1995) by Gore Vidal
  hardcover, ISBN 0-679-44058-0

     "I said that I had read Allen's version of what
     happened between Jack and me in the Chelsea Hotel.
     'Well, he did say that he had blown you.'  Allen
     on sex is rather like a doctor describing,
     neutrally, the symptoms of a case.  'He was sort
     of proud of that.'  Jack gave out many different
     version of what happened that night, including a
     chapter in his novel _The Subterraneans_ and a
     poem dedicated to me in _Mexico City Blues_. "

          Gore Vidal, "Palimpset" (1995), p. 217


     At a _Dharma Bums_ publication party:

     "Jack was thick and sullen, and about to lose
     his beauty for good.  I told him that I had
     read _The Subterraneans_, in which I figure as
     Arial Lavalina.  Meticulously, Jack describes
     an evening that he had arranged for Burroughs
     to meet me."

     "From the letters, Bill is infatuated with
     Allen, who is in love with Jack, who is in love
     with Cassady as well as various women."

          Gore Vidal, "Palimpset" (1995), p.227-8


     "I challenged Jack.  'Why did you, the
     tell-it-all-like-it-is writer, tell
     everything about that evening with
     Burroughs and me and then go leave out
     what happened when we went to bed?'"
                                                   Here, "we" means
        Gore Vidal, "Palimpset" (1995), p. 251     Vidal and Kerouac,
                                                   not Burroughs:

     Allen Ginsberg's opinion,              The story in "The Subterraneans":
     as quoted by Vidal:                    Burroughs got left behind in a
                                            lesbian bar, as Kerouac and Vidal
     'He didn't dare write                  went back to Vidal's place.
     anything like that because             There's a suggestion that Kerouac
     he was afraid of his                   mislead Vidal into thinking he
     mother.  She was a monster.'           wanted to have sex with him.

     Allen Ginsberg,
     speaking of Kerouac:
                                         Ginsberg, in conversation with Vidal:
     'I used to blow him every
     now and then.'  ... 'Jack           'What did you and Jack do?'
     liked company in bed, but
     he wasn't all that keen on          'Well, I fucked him.'
     the sex part-- with men.
     He blew me once to see what         'I don't think,' said Allen
     it was like.  He didn't             thoughtfully, 'that he would have
     like it.'                           liked that.'

                                         'Maybe that was the point.'
                                         I changed the subject.. .

                                         Gore Vidal, "Palimpset" (1995), p.218



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