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Anonymous Thu Apr 11 17:03:39 2019 No.12920034 [Reply] [Original]

>"Then he [Wittgenstein] stumbled across the gangster films of James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, which he voraciously consumed and obsessed over. He began to wear a vintage 1920s fedora along with a ridiculous pinstripe-suit everywhere he went, and assimilated odd expressions into his everyday speech. He acquired the habit of declaring, “It’ll be curtains for you!” whenever someone angered him or "Jeepers, fellas!, it's the cops!" every time we happened to pass a policeman's car or saw an officer patrolling the streets. He even went so far as to set up a moonshine still and began bootlegging the liquor, convinced of the surreptitious procedure of the operation. Of course, the authorities knew about it but they decided to humor the eminent philosopher since the whole affair was entirely innocuous, and I myself was happy to see my friend toiling so judiciously at something besides that tortuous logic of his. Though the enterprise did turn out to be severely nerve-wracking for him, since while he worked at the still in the basement every little creak or unexpected voice would send him into an alarmed exclamation of, "Jeepers, fellas!, it's the cops!" and he’d dash around to hide the moonshine apparatus. My wife informed me that the few bottles of moonshine she bought from him, mostly out of pity, were dreadful." -Norman Malcolm, in Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir (1966), p. 63

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Anonymous Thu Apr 11 18:11:09 2019 No.12920389

>>12920034
>Though the enterprise did turn out to be severely nerve-wracking for him, since while he worked at the still in the basement every little creak or unexpected voice would send him into an alarmed exclamation of, "Jeepers, fellas!, it's the cops!"
I read this in an austrian accent and now my sides are gone

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 18:13:28 2019 No.12920398 >>12920034 I genuinely believed the orangutan story when you first posted it

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 18:34:13 2019 No.12920473 >>12920034 fuck im dying

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 18:42:54 2019 No.12920522 >>12920389 kek

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 18:44:13 2019 No.12920527 Conclusive evidence that it was not the German spirit or the breakdown of language, but the pernicious influence of jazz and the wets that killed analytic philosophy. Quite sobering.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 19:55:41 2019 No.12920799 Keep up the good work friend

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 20:57:16 2019 No.12921052 >>12920398 I missed it, what was the orangutan story

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 21:01:57 2019 No.12921066 I like how these anecdotes have gone from typical, but amusing Wittgenstein foibles to the merry adventures of an autistic retard and his caretakers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 21:03:51 2019 No.12921071 >>12920034 Fuck, this is the best one yet! My fucking sides!

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 21:04:03 2019 No.12921073 >>12921052 They chimped out

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 21:05:36 2019 No.12921078 >>12920034 witty was hopelessly autistic. god bless him

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 21:12:38 2019 No.12921106 >>12920034 kek never stop these

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 21:19:17 2019 No.12921127 >>12920034 This could be an animated short series

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 21:21:59 2019 No.12921136 File: 136 KB, 1920x331, 87818486125.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12921052

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 21:48:44 2019 No.12921267 dude sitcom but with distinguished philosophers lol! cringe

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 11 21:51:31 2019 No.12921283 >>12921136 >I was stunned and asked him to elaborate. >He answered "No." kek

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 00:20:31 2019 No.12921721 does anybody have a collection of these?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 00:28:52 2019 No.12921733 Excellent work

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 01:05:44 2019 No.12921831 fun things fuckin suck B)

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 01:07:56 2019 No.12921837 >>12921267 sounds like a personal problem, kid

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 01:10:35 2019 No.12921842 Based Wittgensteinposter

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 01:59:28 2019 No.12921943 HOT ZIGGITY!

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 06:00:16 2019 No.12922378 >>12921066 shut up bitch

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 06:02:38 2019 No.12922382 >>12921078 Was he autistic?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 06:04:52 2019 No.12922384 >>12921267 have sex, incel

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 06:06:45 2019 No.12922390 >>12920034 This is Kant pasta tier.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 06:10:55 2019 No.12922396 >>12922378 “No.”

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 14:05:15 2019 No.12924179 This gave me a helluva kek so I'm bumping it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 14:08:01 2019 No.12924189 File: 1.23 MB, 2048x2048, hammerhead-sharks_thumb.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12921136 >why yes, I browse full screen on an ultrawide monitor like a retard, how could you tell?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 14:29:04 2019 No.12924254 >>12921267 I really don’t get how people can be so easily upset

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 14:37:00 2019 No.12924285 >>12921267 It'll be curtains for you!

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 14:43:18 2019 No.12924316 these are honestly the best thread on /lit/. I love you guys, you are all awesome!

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 16:26:53 2019 No.12924800 File: 32 KB, 576x456, 1549163470919.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12920034 >he's just like me I knew I was a genius!

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 16:58:56 2019 No.12924963 File: 401 KB, 447x438, 1518777658969.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12924285 My fucking sides fuck

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 18:35:50 2019 No.12925399 >>12921831 pwned

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 18:52:34 2019 No.12925451 >>12924189 underrated

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 19:00:10 2019 No.12925478 I feel more and more compelled to read the book, just so that I can see for myself if these are real or not.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 19:16:21 2019 No.12925520 File: 465 KB, 868x1054, Wittgendotes.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 19:36:03 2019 No.12925585 >>12925478 The only real one is the "hot ziggety" one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 22:55:43 2019 No.12926295 >>12925478 >>12925585 >the hot ziggety thing is fucking real I don't know what to think anymore.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 23:10:13 2019 No.12926341 >>12921267 have a nice day, handsome fella

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 12 23:11:54 2019 No.12926351 >>12920034 Are all these quotes from one biography? What is it?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 01:30:56 2019 No.12926692 >>12926351 Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir, by Norman Malcolm

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 01:45:42 2019 No.12926730 this is fuckin hilarious hahahahahahahaha thanks /lit/

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 01:53:36 2019 No.12926753 >>12925520 this guy's rare wittgenstein pic collection is good. why does wittgenstein never look directly at camera?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 07:57:59 2019 No.12927539 >>12921267 Jeepers!

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 08:41:52 2019 No.12927619 File: 508 KB, 868x1096, wittgendotes.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12920034

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Anonymous Sat Apr 13 08:50:37 2019 No.12927643

>>12920527
It no doubt sounds very heroic when Wittgenstein declares that one should say only that which can be said clearly. It also conveys a mystical-existential aura that many today find appealing. But I believe that this famous Wittgensteinian proposition is of an indescribable spiritual vulgarity inasmuch as it ignores the whole point of philosophy. It is precisely the paradox of this enterprise that it aims to say the unsayable, to express by means of concepts that which cannot be expressed by means of concepts.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 08:54:19 2019 No.12927656 >>12927619 "Milk is for the pussy" Wh..why?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 11:14:21 2019 No.12928208 >>12926753 autism

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:02:53 2019 No.12928570 >>12920034 beautiful anon

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 18:29:37 2019 No.12929910 It'll be curtains for you!

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 18:30:58 2019 No.12929915 File: 255 KB, 447x438, 1555102736020.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12929910 My fucking sides fuck