i know a lot of old guys exactly like this and i dread the decade or two from now when they're all dead and the only people left here are boring homebodies that know nothing
not particularly fond of russell as a philosopher but his history of western philosophy is a fantastically written overview to the subject, and over the last few years it inspired me to read a much broader swathe of works than i considered previously. i hadn't know much of anything about rousseau but he seems like a truly fascinating man and i'm planning to read some of his works this winter