(Try not to forget how strange and surprising the Tractatus already is - stranger than you think. 'Logic', ha.)

I sure miss this show sometimes.

Science, dropped

George Steiner on the second volume of Edward Timms' study of Karl Kraus.

(Compare to the last line of William Slothrop's hymn, on the last page of Gravity's Rainbow.)

'Please, God, make me a stone' - a simile here would be a mistake, would drain the prayer of its gravity.

'plainly put, man as culture-consumer is, in an insidious way, dissatisfied with man as culture-producer'

'To have a philosophical mind is to participate, by knowledge, in the life and being of many by not treating oneself as a fixed individual, one and unchanging.'

(probably misquoted)

Needless to say: when preoccupied with worry about understanding everything one in fact comes to understand very little.