Here’s an old writers trick that doesn’t involve moving to Tunisia and becoming a dope fiend. If you don’t want to say what you really think about someone because it makes you look like a bit of a prick, just invent a character that effectively ‘isn’t you’ – your prick-like ‘other’ to say all those terrible things you cant really say even though you wish you really could. It’s
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