Not the Marrying Kind

Now, look, I don't want to seem to be missing the point -- and, just to be clear on this, am fully in support of equal marriage rights. Getting gay marriage on the books in DC is a real possibility in the months ahead. I'm on board for that, and ready for the right-wing shitstorm bound to break if it happens.
 
But doesn't this item, about Annie Leibovitz's problem with mortgage debt, rest on a fairly dubious assumption? It is by no means obvious that she and Sontag would have tied the knot.

To judge by her recently published diaries, Sontag ever getting married again -- to anyone -- is a scenario only slightly more probable than one in which she developed a taste for spending her Saturday afternoons watching NASCAR.*

(Maybe she'd have wedded AL on her deathbed? Except Sontag would never have recognized it as her deathbed.)

See also: Laura Elkin's review of Reborn.

          * I like to picture her wearing a trucker hat while doing this.