![]() ![]() New software will allow the replaying of those great events. Timothy, the narrator, must not only rechronicle the days leading to the Crucifixion and subsequent Resurrection, but, as it turns out, he must correct the record. ![]() A “cyberpunk, or Hacker” has unleashed a virus that is attacking “the memory banks of every computer on earth as well as in Heaven and limbo. Computer technology has made possible “a systematic erasure of the Good News” of the emergence of Christ as recorded in the New Testament. Part Sterne, part Burroughs, his story is not simple. This novel reveals Vidal at his satirical best, and, alas,at his most self-indulgent. Paul, perhaps the second most important figure in Christianity. Since super-wit Vidal, astute chronicler and commentator of American mores, has already taken on the likes of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the Norman Podhoretz family, William Buckley, and even Moby Dick and Norman Mailer, it’s not surprising that he might want to take on St. There’s enough to outrage everyone in this audacious and courageous send-up of “the story of Our Lord Jesus Christ as told in the three synoptic gospels as well as by that creep John” and by St. And if God is a Jew, Vidal is no better off. If God exists and Jesus is His son, then Gore Vidal is going to hell. ![]()
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