Nothing Personal
ARE you a psychopathic personality? I’m sure Nesta Pain didn’t mean us to take it personally when she compiled her programme The Misfit, but after hearing it I couldn’t help feeling that I had something in common with Lorna, the chronic self-deceiver, and with Martin, the spineless drifter, and there seemed little consolation in the pronouncement later on that geniuses
(Van Gogh, De Quincey) are often psychopaths. But apart from this I found the programme surprisingly gay--social science without tears, You couldn’t help liking Valentine, who refused to give up drinking because he enjoyed it and who, ringing his doctor from a suitably inaccessible pub, announced himself as an alcoholic who preferred to remain anonymous, And then Lorna, so undaunted by experience-it was being so irresponsible kept her going. Refreshingly the programme made no attempt to proffer a solution to the problem of the misfit-didn’t even | suggest that there’s something wrong with the social set-up that the misfit doesn’t fit into.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 737, 28 August 1953, Page 10
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163Nothing Personal New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 737, 28 August 1953, Page 10
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