Wittgenstein Jr (2014)
“Was it Ede’s idea to call him Wittgenstein? Or Doyle’s?
He doesn’t look like Wittgenstein, it’s true. He’s tall, whereas the real Wittgenstein was small. He’s podgy, whereas the real Wittgenstein was thin. And if he’s foreign—European in some sense—he has barely the trace of an accent.
But he has a Wittgensteinian aura, we agree. He is Wittgensteinisch, in some way.
He has clearly modelled himself on the real Wittgenstein, Doyle says (and Doyle knows about these things). He dresses like Wittgen...stein, for one thing—the jacket, the open-necked shirt, the watch strap protruding from his pocket. And he behaves a bit like Wittgenstein too: his intensity—his lips are thinner than any we’ve seen; his impatience—the way he glared at Scroggins for coming in late; his visible despair.
And of course, like the real Wittgenstein, he has come to Cambridge to do fundamental work in philosophical logic.
He sits on a wooden chair at the top of the room, bent forwards, elbows on his knees.MoreLess
He doesn’t look like Wittgenstein, it’s true. He’s tall, whereas the real Wittgenstein was small. He’s podgy, whereas the real Wittgenstein was thin. And if he’s foreign—European in some sense—he has barely the trace of an accent.
But he has a Wittgensteinian aura, we agree. He is Wittgensteinisch, in some way.
He has clearly modelled himself on the real Wittgenstein, Doyle says (and Doyle knows about these things). He dresses like Wittgen...stein, for one thing—the jacket, the open-necked shirt, the watch strap protruding from his pocket. And he behaves a bit like Wittgenstein too: his intensity—his lips are thinner than any we’ve seen; his impatience—the way he glared at Scroggins for coming in late; his visible despair.
And of course, like the real Wittgenstein, he has come to Cambridge to do fundamental work in philosophical logic.
He sits on a wooden chair at the top of the room, bent forwards, elbows on his knees.MoreLess
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