Without Myra Breckinridge, could there have been either a La Cage aux Folles or Victor/Victoria?
GV: Yes, I think you’re right on both. Myra shares a lot, after all, with the original spirit of Saturday Night Live. RG: But as far as your own books are concerned, could there have been a Myra Breckinridge without The City and The Pillar? GV: No, I don’t see any connection, although the N.Y. Review of Books recently referred to that “furtive prairie fire” set off by The City and The Pillar. RG: When you initially composed Myra Breckinridge you told one interviewer that it was as if the voices inspiring Joan of Arc came to you. What changes have the voices recommended in this combined reissue (with Myron)? GV: Most of the changes were made so that the two books would conform to one another in a single volume. I kind of copped out in that I dropped the names of the Supreme Court justices from Myron — a funny joke at the time [1974]. I just went back to the words that the justices’ were substituted for: fuck, cock, asshole et cetera. In Myron, there is no more Blackmun. No more “we’ll p
