Paula Byrne: uncertainty

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…What do you take to be the true motive behind it? Just viciousness, or mental illness, or . . . ? A little bit of viciousness, a lot of mental illness. I think it was someone whose life hadn’t really turned out the way she’d expected. There was a little bit of envy, I don’t know why, but felt like there was “it should have been me” sort of thing and really wanting to put me down. Again, that class and that British class thing, that “Who are you to be parading around Oxford as a provost’s wife?” Who knows? Because I never had met this person. I did not know this person. It was just, “Why would you even do that?” Everything was from Twitter. Talking about Twitter, it was my Twitter novel because I figured out early, I was like, “Oh, my God, this person doesn’t know me.” I was like, “Everything that’s in these letters are things that I’ve tweeted,” and that was the case, as it happened. Little link there with our Twitter experiences, Tyler. How many letters were there?…

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