Article: showbiz: Portrait of a Victorian prodigy that shattered my illusions; Books RICHARD REEVES John Stuart Mill (Atlantic Books, pounds 30).(Features)

Byline: by Lorne Jackson

I ALWAYS believed myself to be a bright kid.

I wore specs, for a start, clearly the sign of an intelligent chap.

Meanwhile, my hair was a mangled mop, just like Einstein's.

Then there were all those kids who bullied me on a regular basis.

No doubt Isaac Newton and Betrand Russell put up with similar behaviour when they were in short trousers.

Yup, I was a genius, all right.

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