But when his last night in Norway came, on 10 December, he greeted it with some relief, writing that it was perfectly possible that he would never return. –Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tag: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Unbelievable beauty
Don’t think: look!— Ludwig Wittgenstein It’s a mystery to me, how some art, some artists, makes us see – sense – the unbelievable beauty of ordinary things. Vija Celmins is such an artist, the mysterious one, capable of transforming reality into something even more real. ‘When you work on a piece for a good long…
Becoming intimate with fear
—Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry. (Philosophie dürfte man eigentlich nur dichten.) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value * Maggie Nelson: I’ve often written about things that terrify me—likely out of compulsion more than hope for comfort, or catharsis; as Peter Handke says near the end of his horrified memoir of his mother’s suicide, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams,…
There would seem to be a lesson here, but I am not prepared to describe it –
While writing a book, I’m influenced by things the same way I would imagine most writers are: I look for what I want to steal, then I steal it, and make my own weird stew of the goods – Maggie Nelson * writing Bluets * ludwig wittgenstein (1889 – 1951) *
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