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As for the lady psychiatrist, Capote warmed up to the accusation that bothered him most. "The manner in which Tynan introduces this character," he wrote, "is McCarthy technique at its serpentine suavest. He means to use her the same way a ventriloquist uses a dummy. Tynan is a bully; and true to tradition, he is also a coward. There are some very rotten things he wants to say about me, but he hasn't the guts to come right out and say them himself. Even a man with the morals of a baboon and the guts of a butterfly could not do anything sneakier or more cowardly than that: it would bring a blush to the cheeks of Uriah Heep."
To date, Tynan has got in the last licks: "Capote seems to have invented yet another art form: after the non-fiction novel, the semi-documentary tantrum."