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NM: No, it would use them up. The crystals are right in the middle of my life. I���d have to use them if I were to tell a reasonable narrative of my life. I���ve never written directly about any of my wives, for example, for just that reason. The experiences were too rich, too complex, and too enigmatic to use directly. As long as I don���t use them directly, I can write about 20, 30, 40, 50 women on the basis of the six women I���ve been married to, plus a few other women, of course. CB: Thank God for breaks between marriages, because you get some fresh experience. I���ve only been married twice, yet I define myself as a serial monogamist. I go from one woman to the next woman and I try not to be two-timing the woman I���m with. When you start doing that, the relationship is over. I got trained as a husband and enjoyed the idea of being married to one person, and I also felt that, sexually, we could get better rather than worse, just like Olympic skaters improve their act together. But the thing you said about protecting the crystal is vivid. I can see how you could go through the same form and come out a different side. For example, in your last novel, The Gospel According to the Son, you deal with Christ���s chastity. Your very knowledge of women now provides you with another prismatic direction. NM: I wouldn���t say that. I had trouble with Christ���s chastity. When you write, there are certain things that you work to get, and there are other elements that come to you as gifts, almost out of the very mood of the writing or the momentum of the work. You have to count on things coming to you or the work is no good. And then there are parts that don���t come to you, and you���re not as good as you thought you���d be, so you work hard and sweat it out. Christ���s chastity was not a simple matter for me. A lot of people complained about the book. They will point to one HYLAND 14