“Sunday was lethargic from the beginning as I wallowed in a morass of general and specific dislike and pity for most people but me especially,” Ms. Rodham reported in a letter postmarked Oct. 3, 1967.

Forty years on, not much has changed.

Try this:

“She wrote of being a little girl and believing that she was the only person in the universe. She had a sense that if she turned around quickly, ‘everyone else would disappear.’”

Yep, sounds right.

Rodham’s philosophy