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- jamesmacdonald7 said...
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I agree with you, Richard, and then some. In 1959 William Styron was 34ish. Is it conceivable that he'd go with a woman nearly 20 years his senior? Anybody who would must have a sexual kink somewhere...and I seriously doubt this applied to Styron. And he and O'Hara moved in different circles anyway.
- Friday, May 02, 2008 11:26:00 am
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Watson's The Double Hook came out in 1959 and was an experimental fiction of the type O'Hara would never read, much less admire, especially at age 54.
In 1959 O'Hara was happily married to his final wife and was notoriously faithful to her. While such an orgy could have taken place during his various bachelorhoods, or especially in Hollywood, it is terribly unlikely he would have partied like this in 1959 or thereafter. (He died in 1970.)
That said, it is a delightful anecdote delightfully told. But is sure sounds spurious.
Philadelphia::1 May 2008
Rubbish, of course. Facts don't square. Never mind. Good story.
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