Commentary
Since my adolescence I have loved churchyards and cemeteries. I still find entry to them as irresistibly tempting as to bookshops.
A tomb in the cemetery of Dunfermline, Scotland, on Aug. 9, 2009. Guillaume Piolle/CC BY 3.0
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Theodore Dalrymple
Author
Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor. He is contributing editor of the City Journal of New York and the author of 30 books, including “Life at the Bottom.” His latest book is “Embargo and Other Stories.”
