of Pope's self-torment as a satirist who claimed to relish his enmities. Handed one of his enemy Colly Cibber's pamphlets against him, he supposedly declared, "These things are my diversion"--but those who watched as he read it saw "his features writhen with anguish". The greater the reputation, the more tender the sense of self.from The Guardian: Mournful narratives
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