A writer’s comic material can curdle into rage as the world changes

Evidence

Those were the days, before feminism, before AIDS, before the sex abuse scandals, when I could laugh at what enrages me now: the hypocrisy, the waste, the damage. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 23

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how context reshapes a text’s tone — relevant to re-reading and revising one’s own earlier work.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 23