Husbands and Wives Page #5

Are you an only child?

- Why are you asking these questions?|- I'm interested.

I was so impressed.

I gave it to someone else|and she was also impressed.

Oh, really?

- Are you from New York?|- I'm from East End Avenue.

- Are these too many questions?|- No.

It's just the only child one.|Yes, I was an only child. Yeah.

So how did you manage|to write something so deep?

I mean, have you had a...?

Have you been married and divorced?

Is your whole family stormy|and tempestuous or...?

What? I didn't know I was stormy|and tempestuous.

Well, the writing was very...

- It was intense.|- I don't know.

It's just a trick, you know?|It's like...

...when I was 10, I wrote|this story on Paris...

...and I'd never been there.

You don't have to...|It's just a trick.

- You don't have to know or...|- Can you just turn it out?

There are a number of very good|professors who are notorious...

...for seducing their female pupils.|This goes on...

...because it's a cinch.

You know, they look up to them.

You know, they're older men...

...and students are flattered|by the attention.

It's not something I've ever done.|Not to say I haven't had daydreams.

Some of those women are|very attractive and interesting.

But I've never...

I've never acted on it.

I've never cheated on Judy.

Or any other relationship|in my life, really.

Because that has not been my style.

But, once...

One time, many years ago...

...I was living with this fabulous,|interesting woman...

...named Harriet Harmon.

I'm ashamed to say this,|but Harriet Harmon...

...was the great love of my life.

It was a very passionate relationship.|I loved her very intensely.

And, you know, we just|made love everywhere.

She was sexually carnivorous.

We did it in stalled elevators...

...and in bushes and people's houses,|at parties in the bathroom.

In the back of cars, she'd|put a coat on our laps...

...and grab my hand and|stick it between her legs.

She was really something.

And she, you know,|she was highly libidinous.

You know? She wanted|to make love with other women.

She got into dope for a while.|She'd break that thing...

...that you sniff when she'd|have her orgasm.

I was getting a real education.

I was fascinated.|I was absolutely nuts about her.

And ultimately she wound up|in an institution.

I mean, it's not funny,|it was a very sad thing.

She was great, but nuts.

See, I've always had this penchant...

...for what I call "kamikaze women."

I call them kamikazes because|they crash their plane.

They crash it into you,|and you die with them.

As soon as there's little chance|of it working out...

...something clicks in my mind.|Maybe because I'm a writer.

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