FROM THE TERRY SOUTHERN ARCHIVE
Cardboard backing from legal tablet, signed by Gore Vidal:
"Terry Southern is the most profoundly witty writer of our generation and in The Magic Christian he surpasses Flaubert's Bouvard et Pécuchet, a work similarly inspired by conventional wisdom's serene idiocy."--Gore Vidal
(above) The telegram to Terry from Stanley Kubrick, November 2nd, 1962
inviting him to come work on Dr. Strangelove
