From Mark Dunn, Oxford, UK
Your article on giving up on your ambitions put me in mind of a passage from P. G. Wodehouse that has stayed with me since I read it over 30 years ago (15 November, p 28). In it, he succinctly summarises the gist of the article: ” ‘Well, well,’ he said, ‘if I cannot compel circumstances to my will, I can at least adapt my will to circumstances. I decide to remain here.’ Which he did, and had a not unpleasant time.” It looks like science is finally catching up with the great philosopher!