It's that Gore Vidal's direly needed introduction to the .. Penguin..?.. copy of Henry James's "The Golden Bowl" .. Gore Vidal's beautifully, elegantly written introduction to "The Golden Bowl".. told us something we direly, desperately needed to know.. that Gore Vidal was a nice person, a decent person, an honest person.. not the monster we believed him to be.. a man with the first name named after slasher, horror-goreflicks.. and a last name, "Vidal", named after the Jean Brayton "The Solar Lodge" cult that was located in the county of Vidal, America...