The American text was trimmed to cross the Atlantic, notably during Rusty's medical examination by Myra; autograph letter, signed by Vidal to Leon Drucker, London bookseller, 'I expected to make cuts not so much to avoid proseuction as to dramatize for reviewers, if no one else, the present timidity of English publishers ... Off the record, as we say, I think that the book will probably be prosecuted even in its current edition, and the thought of all the fuss depresses me profoundly.'
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