Rolling Stone, 22 December 1983, p. 131.
Name
One Arlene Dahl Movie and Win a Free Trip to Normandy Beach
By
Jack Richardson
[The
writer recalls an anecdote told to him by Gore Vidal.]
Andre
Gide would try to avoid paying the young men he'd just sodomized by declaring
that they should be honored to have been buggered by a master of French literature,
and when then asked who he was, he would sonorously introduce himself as the
Catholic writer Francois Mauriac[.]
Naim
Attalah, Of a Certain Age (London: Quartet,
1992), p. 26.
There
was a wonderful story about Andre Gide having buggered a little boy in Morocco.
Afterwards he said to the boy, 'You have just had intimate relations with the
greatest living French author', and the boy replied, 'Who? Francois Mauriac?'
[The
characters in these anecdotes are the same -- Gide, his sex partners, and Gide's
rival, physically absent but essentially present -- but their roles (as victim
or victor) in each version couldn't be more different. -- bc]