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and <strong>of</strong> another eight-year-old who criednot only when she felt embarrassed, butalso when her peers were teased.We know this type <strong>of</strong> person wellfrom literature, probably because somany writers are sensitive <strong>in</strong>trovertsthemselves. He “had gone through lifewith one sk<strong>in</strong> fewer than most men,”the novelist Eric Malpass writes <strong>of</strong> hisquiet and cerebral protagonist, also anauthor, <strong>in</strong> the novel <strong>The</strong> Long LongDances. “<strong>The</strong> troubles <strong>of</strong> others movedhim more, as did also the teem<strong>in</strong>gbeauty <strong>of</strong> life: moved him, <strong>com</strong>pelledhim, to seize a pen and write aboutthem. [He was moved by] walk<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>the hills, listen<strong>in</strong>g to a Schubert impromptu,watch<strong>in</strong>g nightly from hisarmchair the smash<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> bone andflesh that made up so much <strong>of</strong> the n<strong>in</strong>eo’clock news.”409/929

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