Over time, it can be a strain to project yourself as both an exception and an example, and the insistence on not being damaged can seem like damage in another form.
— Adam Mars-Jones, “Mrs Winterson’s Daughter,” a review of Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Cape, 2011), London Review of Books, 26 January 2012, page 6. I disagreed viscerally with much of this long review, which gives the sense of the reviewer’s having hated Winterson on sight, but there’s also a small part with which I agreed. (via j2parman)
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