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absolutely send them into total chagrin if they blemished it. There are people who one hardly ever hears of
otherwise who they kind of roll out – some aged Tory somewhere down in Cheltenham, you know – who they
roll out simply to axe a book of mine, and then they go back in the cupboard and close the door.
RH: So you should start to worry about your work the day you get a good review in the TLS?
TE: Well, as they say, if they cheer you what are you doing wrong? [laughs] ‘Blessed are ye when men revile ye.’
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