Writers seem to relish eviscerating their fellow artists whenever they get a chance
Gore Vidal at his Italian villa: he hated it when his enemies – and friends – achieved success. Photograph: Joseph Leombruno/Condé Nast via Getty Images
The professional contrarian Morrissey is an admirer of Oscar Wilde so perhaps that informs the singer’s approach to successful friends. After his old friend Simon Topping appeared on the cover of music newspaper NME, he dramatically proclaimed: “I died a thousand deaths of sorrow and lay down in the woods to die”.
Digging up dead writers who annoy you seems to have been a trend back then. George Bernard Shaw was so irritated by Shakespeare that he wrote “it would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him”. But back to Gore Vidal and his hatred of his friends’ success. He hated the success of his enemies too and cradled these jealous rivalries more tenderly than you’d nurse a newborn baby.
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