摘要：Oddly, one of the drawbacks of this book is its open-mindedness. That this can
be excessive is made clear in Michael Frayn’s wonderful description of a man
with an open mind:
It was open at the front, and it was open at the back. Opinions, beliefs,
philosophies entered, sojourned briefly, and were pushed out at the
other end by the press of incoming convictions and systems … He was
a profoundly modest man, and in his modesty he knew that since he had
evidently been wrong so often in the past, he was in no position now to
cast stones at any idea, however wretched, or to refuse to take it in and
give it shelter. His intelligence, unhampered by any critical processes,
was quick and agile …2
