"They [fellow grade school students] ridiculed him by chanting an alliterative jingle that made play of his unhappiness and of the distance between him and the rest of the school: 'Wittgenstein wandelt wehmütig widriger Winde wegen Wienwärts.' ('Wittgenstein wends his woeful windy way towards Vienna'). In his efforts to make friends, he felt, he later said, 'betrayed and sold' by his schoolmates."
-Ray Monk, "Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius," pg. 16
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment