People
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
— Virginia Woolf · A Room of One's Own (1929)
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Literature is pictured as a landscape scattered with human wreckage, where caring excessively about other people's opinions has done lasting damage. The force of 'beyond reason' matters: the warning concerns dependence on approval that grows so strong it becomes destructive.
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