Me: no. I don’t like being seen. I’d always rather be eavesdropping, watching people, standing at the back of the room with avenues of egress readily available just in case I need to split. I’m not competitive, which I used to flatter myself was a sign of maturity, but I realized a few years ago it could also be arrogance. I just don’t care enough about what other people are doing to compete with them. I see myself not in competition with anybody but in partnership with the page itself. It’s the beauty of the work that interests me, even if, like Duchess Goldblatt, like a Tibetan monk’s sand
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