My New Philosophical Criticism Technique Is Unstoppable
November 3rd, 2004
David Rees (yes, that one) waxes philosophic (on and off) about his love affair (on and off) with Ludwig Wittgenstein.
He entered this world a prodigy—a prodigy who grew ever more smart as he grew older. By the time he died in 1951, breathing his last words: “Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life (even though I had to suffer all you dumbasses)”—he was the most brilliant man to ever die. How do we know this? Because of the first book he wrote, and the first book to blow Bertrand Russell’s head off his shoulders: The infamous Tractatus Logico-Philosohpicus.