What would Anonydoc say?

Via Mr. Kurp at Anecdotal Evidence, here is a quote from the ever more admired doctor/ essayist known as Theodore Dalrymple.

“Thanks to the fact that I write, my life is satisfactory: I can inhabit gloom and live in joy. When something unpleasant happens to me, provided only that is potentially of literary use, my first thought is ‘How best can I describe this?’ I thereby distance myself from my own displeasure or irritation. As I tell my patients, much to their surprise — for it is not a fashionable view — it is far more important to be able to lose yourself than to find yourself.”

-"Reasons To Be Cheerful"

Think about it...

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But this picture just had me laughing and smiling and laughing again as I imagined the story behind it becoming a part of the family folk-lore there...