Out Into The Beautiful World, by Theodore Dalrymple
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Out Into The Beautiful World, by Theodore Dalrymple
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When I was a young man I thought that metaphysics was the most exciting (and important) thing in the world. I wish now that I had not wasted so much time on the imponderable questions of metaphysics but had used it to more worthwhile effect. Rather than study philosophy, I should have studied insects. In the little essays that follow, I have no grand theory to prove, no single message to convey. Small things and slight occurrences have caught my attention and caused me to reflect a little. I hope only to please the reader. — Theodore Dalrymple
Out Into The Beautiful World, by Theodore Dalrymple - Amazon Sales Rank: #602798 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-07-13
- Released on: 2015-07-13
- Format: Kindle eBook
Out Into The Beautiful World, by Theodore Dalrymple Review
In his modest claim to have no grand theory or single message, Theodore Dalrymple echoes the great essayist Michel de Montaigne - whom he resembles in wisdom, wit, felicity of prose, and insatiable curiosity, as well.
- Myron Magnet, author of The Founders at Home and editor-at-large of City Journal
This is a constantly engaging and humorous collection of the always informative and original observations of one of the most elegant and erudite contemporary writers in the English language.
- Conrad Black, author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, A Matter of Principle, Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership and Rise To Greatness: A History of Canada from the Vikings to the Present
Theodore Dalrymple has done something that all the severe literary critics had decreed impossible. He has revived the essay. In the course of chasing his hat where it listeth, Dalrymple discovers the extraordinary multifariousness of human life from tender book inscriptions to "healthcare serial killers" and reveals all of it to us in language that is sometimes witty, sometimes tender, sometimes sharp, and always exactly right.
John O Sullivan, author of The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World and editor of Quadrant --New English Review
About the Author
Theodore Dalrymple is a former prison doctor and psychiatrist. He has been arrested as a spy in Gabon, been sought by the South African police for violating apartheid, visited the site of a civilian massacre by the government of Liberia, concealed his status as a writer for fear of execution in Equatorial Guinea, infiltrated an English communist group in order to attend the World Youth Festival in North Korea, performed Shakespeare in Afghanistan, smuggled banned books to dissidents in Romania, been arrested and struck with truncheons for photographing an anti-government demonstration in Albania and crossed both Africa and South America using only public transportation. He is also the author of more than two dozen books and innumerable essays.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Updated Review: Upon a Second Reading One Finds Much to Admire and Enjoy By Michael Revision on 12-15-2015: Trust not the whimsy of critics (like me).To my surprise, gratification, and slight embarrassment I found a second reading of Out Into The Beautiful World worthy of the highest rating. Since few have rated this title my original three stars seem to carry atypical (and unworthy) weight. Plainly stated, I was wrong the first time around. Though this essay collection tacks a new, softer rhetorical heading away from earlier works like Second Opinion and If Symptoms Persist, fans of "Dr. Dalrymple" will quickly recognize his droll, quick-witted, and acerbic style; the same style chalk full of dry humor and poignant expository asides about "life at the bottom" of English society so utterly the domain of the present author, George Orwell, Henry Mayhew, and Charles Dickens.Despite such hefty intellectual company Daniels (Dr. Dalrymple) meets the challenge again and again of reprising and updating their collective tradition of articulating the immeasurably dismal states of the poor and criminal underclass. If only someone on my side of the pond could do as much to reveal the banality (and triviality) of the evil, lazy, and insane among us in America. (Perhaps it says something of our country's anti-intellectualism and ridicule of anything glinting at highbrow that we have no one either prepared [or willing] to do us this much-needed favor.)In reviewing the motives for my original poor assessment I think it stemmed entirely from my own wrong-headed expectations and not from any intrinsic fault of the book's style or content. Out Into The Beautiful World is sunnier and altogether more nostalgic and philosophical than the books Daniels wrote while working as a prison and NHS doctor; more introspection than invective: we learn something of the man behind the mask (and he is thoughtful, humane, self-conflicted, and utterly honest). These essays are particularly enjoyable for those readers who have followed their author from the get-go, an observation which walks some few steps in defense of my original suggestion that new readers not make this their first "Dr. Dalrymple" book.Indeed, while earlier books went to some great lengths to shield the author's identity, Out Into The Beautiful World reveals the man behind the tweedy pseudonym directly on the copyright page. Since his retirement, it seems Daniels has sloughed more than his rhetorical cloak: This book is altogether more thoughtful and reminiscent; more latte than bitter black coffee (though the enjoyment of either scales with the occasion and ones mood); sweet milk in lemon tea; a contemplative dusting of snowflakes instead of a blizzard; more nocturne than scherzo; the quieter, lilting melody of a calm sea rather than the roiling, frothing, vigorous percussion of a gale-force typhoon. This is what I meant by misaligned expectations. Both parts of the preceding antonymic juxtapositions are meritorious in their own rights but you will admit, as metaphors for Daniels variety of prose, they occupy their own non-overlapping and exclusive domains.I owe much of my own limited and pell-mell intellectual development directly to Anthony Daniels and his books. His relentless citations and literary allusions and metaphors have led me to purchase and read so many books that it is not unsafe to claim one-third the present quantity of my library’s inventory came out of the pages of his books. It seems uncontroversial to propose an acid test for great writing is one’s desire to revisit the material, to linger over a particular book’s sentences and paragraphs, parsing and musing over the novelty of the syntax or the proper use of cliché and metaphor to render an argument with unique clarity; and it is in this regard that Daniels’ writing has beckoned my repeated attentions while newer books from lesser authors pile up around my feet like grains of sand in the path of a gentle but otherwise persistent tide of trivial gibberish and pabulum. His prose are so densely wooded with referential nods to giant minds of the past that only a classical scholar could proceed without an encyclopedia and collegiate dictionary nearby. Indeed, to one seeking to carry on “the great conversation” Dr. Dalrymple is an intellectual Virgil, and I should praise him in the same style as the student who issued Allan Bloom his greatest compliment (“You are not a professor of political science, but a travel agent.”) Anthony Daniels is not an essayist but a bibliographer; less psychiatrist than philosopher; less a writer than a reader; less a doctor than a teacher and a guide. His writing is dense without being impenetrable; his references challenge the reader without overwhelming him. Out Into The Beautiful World and, indeed, all Daniels’ writing is to the essay form what Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights is to art: one cannot take it all in the first time around. And he manages all this elaboration without losing the reader in a maze of pseudo-profundities; and he doesn’t bore and confuse the reader until they are hypnotized by virtue of their misunderstanding into agreement as does, say, Hegel with his Phenomenology. (Hegel's artistic doppelganger is almost certainly the infinitely nonsensical Jackson Pollock.) By comparison, even the most abstract of Daniels’ essays are portraits of lucidity and concision.In all these regards, who other than Robert Burton or Montaigne has Daniels to second? I can think of no higher summary of Daniels’ talents and contributions to my intellectual life and, I’m certain, those of most of his readers than to include him in this company. It is surely the fittest exercise of a reader to constantly seek out authors who challenge him; with little hesitation do I claim Anthony Daniels will hold this vaulted status perennially.I hope critics of my original review will grant me the same clemency Daniels asks for in this book's essay about Rwanda, buy Out Into The Beautiful World, and enjoy it as much as I did. Thank you. - Michael.My Original Review:I love Daniels' writing (aka Dr. Dalrymple). The spines of my copies of If Symptoms Persist, Second Opinion, and Spoilt Rotten are shredded and falling apart from multiple readings (this is slightly misleading because I only read the Kindle versions but ever so much as an eBook has a spine, and ever so much as said spines may be shredded—my Dr. Dalrymple eBooks are indeed falling apart). He is as close as anyone has come to matching Orwell with his stoic commentary, invective prose, and laugh-out-loud subjects and is a lauded member of the modern occupational essay canon along with Bill Bryson, David Foster Wallace, and Frank Chalk. If you have *not* read the above-listed books (or if you are considering Out Into The Beautiful World as your first Dalrymple purchase) please stop reading and purchase If Symptoms Persist or Second Opinion (or both). The failure of this most recent book should not detour a reader from the joys of the above-mentioned superior essay collections.Indeed, the principle intended audience of this review is that class of readers who have read and enjoyed Anthony Daniels' writing and just noticed (as I did) that he's put out a new book. I purchased it on impulse and am almost embarrassed to report the degree to which I found this most recent work lackluster, forced, and otherwise unexceptional. I read the first several chapters, sampled the next several, then finally gave up and for the first time, did not finish an Anthony Daniels book. It's disheartening and I hesitated to publish my opinion here in this review because of how much I revere the man's intellect.Out Into The Beautiful World is a collection of too personal musings (one cannot call this a collection of essays) about well, quite a lot of disparate nonsense. Unlike pretty much anything Daniels has previously written, these articles have the feel of personal diary entries or, at best, meandering blog posts. That is not to say the book has no merit: it does. I especially enjoyed the article about meeting "the fly man" outside a courtroom but (and you've all experienced this with certain essayists) at some point the ubiquity of the personal pronoun ("I") seemed to obscure the content and jump out of the page like a Magic Eye image. There were far too many "I's" for a writer of Daniels' caliber. Without qualification, it's just lazy writing.To conclude: While a few articles glint at the superlative genius behind better-written earlier works, Out Into The Beautiful World was a messy hodgepodge of mediocre quibbling by an author who has given his readers enough brilliant material to earn a get-out-of-jail-free card on this slip-up.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. I love Dalrymple's writing By Patrick C. Wilson Always a fascinating read. I love Dalrymple's writing.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Five Stars By H. Helbock Always fun to read and informative
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