ABSTRACT
in core vidal's 1968 novel, Myra Breckinridge, the title character is on a mission that she hopes will save humanity from itself:
[Myra] is a creature of fantasy, a daydream revealing the feminine principle's need to regain once more that primacy she lost at the time of the Bronze Age when the cock-worshipping Dorians enslaved the West, impiously replacing the Goddess with a god. Happily his days are nearly over; the phallus cracks; the uterus opens; and I am at last ready to begin my mission which is to re-create the sexes and thus save the human race from certain extinction. 1
