MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Split seams
MATTHEW HAWKINS savours the memoir of growing up in the slums of Glasgow in the 1970s and '80s
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Slum Boy: a portrait
Juano Diaz
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INSTEAD of struggling to write sentences with lots of adjectives as his teacher has decreed, a tiny child with scant schooling plays with a pair of craft scissors.
He cuts a long slit up the outside of his trousers and is absorbed by the miracle of his revealed leg. Happening upon on this, his teacher is horrified and shouty. She demands to know why he has done this bit of sartorial damage and she threatens him with punishment if he cannot explain himself. His expression of bafflement seems like the right way of joining in.
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