Happy birthday anniversary, Bertrand Russell. You don't look 150 (well, yes, you sorta do)

[Mark Kohut]

That's a prose version of Yeat's great poetic lines.

"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon
the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony
of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while *the worst /
Are full of passionate intensity.*"

As Ludwig Wittgenstein told "Mad Dog" ---that's an *Against the Day*
allusion--Bertie,
after he, Bertie, got Cambridge to give him a PhD
despite Ludwig refusing to follow the rules, even take the orals, "Russell,
you STILL don't understand my work!"....      Bertie, second-hand
thief....poor Bertie, who never got his emotions and mind in sync.....


On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 7:05 AM Darah Kehnemuyi <darahk1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the
> stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."  Bertrand
> Russell
>
> On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 05:38:58 AM EDT, Mark Kohut <
> mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to
> make it precise." Precisely.
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