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The City and the Pillar

Name: The City and the Pillar
ISBN: 1400030374

: A Novel

A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience. Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy aro

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“Nothing that ever was changes. Yet nothing that is can ever be the same as what went before.”

— Gore Vidal, amazon.com

Tagged: Past, present, Change

“We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? Fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, i…”

— Gore Vidal, amazon.com

Tagged: Existence, Connection, Relationship