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(silencing, wounded, immoral, acquaintances, horror, reports, assault, lionized, condemnatory, amusement)
V. S. Naipaul ‘feels that somepeople are _______ by interviews and lose a part ofthemselves,’ Lewis Carroll, the creator of Alice inWonderland, was said to have had ‘a just _______of theinterviewer’ and he never consented to be interviewed - Itwas his horror of being _______ which made him thus repelwould be _________, interviewers, and the persistentpetitioners for his autograph and he would afterwardsrelate the stories of his success in _________all such peoplewith much satisfaction and _______. Rudyard Kiplingexpressed an even more _______ attitude towardsthe interviewer. His wife, Caroline, writes in her diary for 14 October 1892 that their day was ‘wrecked by two reportersfrom Boston’. She _____her husband as saying to their porters, “Why do I refuse to be interviewed? Because I tis ________! It is a crime, just as much of a crime as anoffence against my person, as an______, and just as muchmerits punishment.

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Wounded, horror, lionized, acquaintances, silencing, amusement, condemnatory, reports, immoral, assault

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