Miranda Sawyer

Yes.

So ecstasy obviously whacks your serotonin up for like a few hours.

But what Prozac does, because it's a selective serotonin receptor, I've got it written down, inhibitor, that's exactly what it is actually, it stops the serotonin dropping.

Yeah.

So it stops the calm down.

Yeah.

And I'm not saying that you're absolutely off your tits on Prozac, but it kind of basically stops that serotonin come down.

And they both work on serotonin.

They're incredibly 90s.

Yes.

Because it's a serotonin thing.

And it was seen as revolutionary at the time.

Let's talk about the kind of new literary form that she is creating, which we have mentioned, which is to write about it as it's happening and to be a young woman, and actually really a young, attractive woman to write about it, is kind of mind-blowing.

And you can trace...

that like all the way through to like girls for a start, that's a really, it's a similar kind of writing, meaning that you've got somebody who's incredibly precocious, Lena Dunham is incredibly precociously talented and she's writing about herself and she's in it.

And it's, you know, I really don't think girls would have existed without Elizabeth Wirtz or whether or not Lena Dunham has.

Whether it's conscious or not.

Yes.

It's like the same thing.

And if I think about like well-known columnists, I think about like, say, Catelyn Moran or people like that, like they're writing about themselves and they are making themselves a character and a writer at the same time.