[He] would know many nights on which he would succumb to women whom a combination of over-eagerness and alcohol would make him think desirable, only … - Javier Marías

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[He] would know many nights on which he would succumb to women whom a combination of over-eagerness and alcohol would make him think desirable, only to clutch his head in the morning on discovering that he had got into bed with some vast relative of Oliver Hardy's or with some flighty Bela Lugosi look-alike.