TIM: “I love it. So you disarmed the insult by adopting it completely.” AMANDA: “Which kind of is my life philosophy.” TIM: “I love that.” AMANDA: “No, really. Just take on the pain, and wear it as a shirt.” TF: This is precisely why I regularly refer to myself a “professional dilettante” when I’m being interviewed by someone who views me as a dabbling generalist (which I probably am). By preemptively using the language of a critic, I remove some of their potential weapons.
