Neglecting Wittgenstein

A chara, - Deirdre Haslett (September 29th) echoes an earlier correspondent's report of Ludwig Wittgenstein being forgotten, …

A chara, - Deirdre Haslett (September 29th) echoes an earlier correspondent's report of Ludwig Wittgenstein being forgotten, and describes with melancholy his neglected grave in Cambridge. All the same, given that in his Tractatus, published in 1921, Wittgenstein famously wrote, "Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present", I suspect the man himself would view the present state of affairs philosophically.

- Is mise,

PÁID Ó DONNCHÚ, An Spidéal, Co na Gaillimhe.