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This is Lucky looking at the Ötscher from one side:


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In one of my favourite bits of Hodges' biography of Turing, Turing attends some of Wittgenstein's philosophy seminars and finds himself the sole representative of "science" in the group. One particularly forward-thinking attender took notes, so we can read the debates between the two of them. There's something thrilling about two famous historical figures that I know from completely different contexts actually meeting and talking - as if life had written a really good crossover. With this in mind, I was fascinated by this photograph that appeared in the magazine Profil a couple of weeks ago:



The third boy from the right, second row from the back, is Ludwig Wittgenstein at the age of 14. The very last boy on the right of the back row is a certain A. Hitler. There's a close-up behind the cut.

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