As long as I continue
to come across questions
in more remote regions
which I can't answer, it
is understandable that I
should still not be able
to find my way around re-
gions that are less remote.
For how do I know that
what stands in the way
of an answer here is not
precisely what is preventing
me from clearing away the
fog over there?
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Diaries, 1948
Culture and Value
G.H. von Wright, editor
Peter Winch, translation
op. cit.
wittgenstein, of course.
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Yes I think it likely that "Wit" has never been taken in any cerebral sort of vein, in the last 75 or so years, without some deep suspicion of inadequacy in the essay, because of our Viennese expatriate. Thus the elegance of Wit's reputation and the dread of its severity, but at the great loss customarily associated with such esteem, of a broad and almost juvenile streak of even more brilliant ditziness in the same unapproachably handsome fount of whatever you may be looking for at the time. This would have made for a difficult life, don't you suppose, under the best of circumstances, even without cultivating the envy of Bertrand Russell?
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