Aviva Layton: Self - 'Married' to Irving Layton for 20 Years
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Self - 'Married' to Irving Layton for 20 Years : Poets do not make great husbands. Do they? Do you know a poet whose ever made an absolutely splendid husband? Or, a filmmaker? Or, an artist? No. You can't own them. You can't even own a bit of them. They're just allusive creatures - who are married to their muse. That sounds so pretentious to say that, but it's true. But, the irony is a man like that - is a man that every woman wants to have - and can't have.
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Self - 'Married' to Irving Layton for 20 Years : Irving went to bed with everybody. Why not Leonard's mother, I mean? And she - she was very attracted to Irving. She was very beautiful. But, *mad*. I think - really great writers have to have *mad*, Oedipally mad mothers.
