Monday
by Theodore Dalrymple
“But this time the mice did not go for Marx, perhaps because he was on upper shelves and they could only reach the lower. There they nibbled instead at the seventh edition of Brain’s textbook of neurology, though they got only as far as the index. How odd it was that the most prominent British neurologist of his generation should have been called Brain, while that of the previous generation was called Head. It is almost enough to make you believe in the theory of nominal determinism, according to which your surname determines your profession. This cannot really be, however, for not far from where I live in England is a firm of estate agents with the wonderfully euphonious name of Doolittle and Dally, which cannot surely reflect their business practices or they would long have ceased trading.”
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