Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
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Hillary Mantle's Profile on Altruism
In your Hillary Mantle profile, you wrote that there are no great characters without a great time. Do you agree with her? I've always been struck by reports of people who come back from war and they say that while it was terrible, it was also good. And I think that may be what she's talking about, that there are times when humans are pushed by their circumstances to greater deeds. During wartime, things that seem extreme and bizarre and unreasonable in ordinary times come to seem normal.
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