Intellectual curiosity can be a source of comfort to the elderly, says Dalrymple in City Journal: “No doubt a happy old age is largely a matter of luck, but it must also be partly a matter of attitude to the world, so various, so beautiful, so new.”
The Skeptical Doctor
Dedicated to the work of Theodore Dalrymple
Anyone know the “two lines” TD is referring to regarding the Scythians?
Hmm… Maybe Ambrose Bierce’s “Devils Dictionary”?
“Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic’s eyes to improve his vision.”