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Following the premature end of Maddy Naif’s life, and nearing his own end, Pierrecourt’s writing became more and more concerned with solving the riddle of his tragic muse: why she stayed with him, whether he loved her or not, whether she ever did in return.  His final interviewer asked him right out, “Do you think Maddy loved you?”

Pierrecourt’s answer was characteristically both blunt and circumspect: “I can never know for certain.  But she sucked my cock every day for over a decade, which I flatter myself to think must count for something.”