Saturday, April 12, 2008
Opsimathy
Hesketh Pearson, The Smith of Smiths, being The Life, Wit and Humour of Sydney Smith (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934), p. 319:
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In June [1844] he was laid up with the gout and one of his callers, Thomas Moore, was amused and surprised to find him studying French, a copy-book open upon the table, with all the verbs, their moods and tenses, written out neatly in his own hand. Moore thought it an odd pastime for a septuagenarian.I don't find it odd at all, and I hope I have enough of my wits about me in my later years to do something similar.
