He is a holy fool, a young escaped convict inspired by the 2, 000-year-old philosophy of the Stoics, which he garners from a mutilated volume of Epictetus.

ECONOMIST: Atlanta burnt again

Possibly, just possibly, the viewer will seek to find out more about Seneca, that he was a Stoic and what that meant, and what Stoics had to say.

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The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.

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