Not P but Wittgenstein

[Mark Kohut]

The Private Notebooks of Ludwig W have been published
in English translation for the first time. I have wanted to read them
for so long that I had forgotten about them.

A "family relationship" affinity for LW,  Ms Marjorie Perloff, she of
*Wittgenstein's
Ladder* calls it.
(alluding to a concept joke that circulated in the Austro-Hungary of Witt's
time:
that all of the elite educated class were somehow related). She is descended
from one such.

LW was a searchlight orderly on a ship in the war. Life is so obvious
with its metaphors sometimes.

LW writes of his search for "the redeeming word"....and the occasional
space of 'grace' in which he could work and felt okay.

Also, quietly, humanly shows the *Portnoy's Complaint* aspect of
discontented sexual urges---or not.

I cannot help but wonder if Thomas Pynchon read these notebooks in German.
We know he knew some famous lines and concepts and would also perhaps
be more interested in the human aspects of the man than in the detailing of
his thinking.