Monday, December 7, 2009

Wittgenstein helps with the war effort

by taking a menial job as a hospital orderly:

"Wittgenstein's job as a porter was to delivery medicines from the dispensary to the wards, where, according to john Ryles' wife, Miriam, he advised the patients not to take them."

from Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius p. 432.

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