wood s lot points us to this review of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, by Andrew Solomon.
Unfortunately, the passage quoted contains the following phrase which caught my eye:
"...Solomon manages to give the reader a sense of depression's shape-shifting, protean character."
Reviewer Judith Lewis is probably a fine writer. She's probably a better writer than I. But I can't help pointing out that protean means "readily assuming different shapes and forms." So we can rewrite the passage above as:
"...Solomon manages to give the reader a sense of depression's shape-shifting, many-shaped character."
Oops.
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