A close collaborator can be consumed by a more talented writer’s work

Evidence

Halliwell complains of “reading his manuscripts and finding that every single thing I have ever thought or said has been included.” — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 320

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘cannibalistic fervor’ of a working writer—how artistic partnerships can become parasitic and self-destroying.
• XREF: Speaks to Mantel’s recurring theme of how human beings are consumed and remade by circumstance; also echoes her own memoir of self-reinvention. — connects to: Intense devotion to art can consume a writer’s entire life — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 558
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 320