"Lance" > wrote in message
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On Jun 7, 11:37 am, Paul Grieg > wrote:
> On Jun 7, 12:12 am, "graham" > wrote:
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> > "Paul Grieg" > wrote in message
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> ...
> > On Jun 5, 7:47 pm, "PG" > wrote:
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> > Wittgenstein thought food was too
> > trivial to waste time over so had the same lunch every day (boiled egg
> > & a lump of cheese).
>
> > What a miserable sod he must have been!
> > Graham
>
> Why? Have you any research to show that following a simple diet makes
> one a miserable sod? His final words we “Tell them I had a
> wonderful life.” Doesn't sound miserable to me.

I know that there is a Christian ideology that says that self-
punishment is good for a person. It is the ideology that resulted in
hairshirts and self-mutilation. But why any humanist should believe
that the pleasure of food is worth throwing away is beyond me. In what
way would eating well have hurt Wittgenstein, or anyone else? Surely
the life of Wittgenstein having the same miserable food everyday is
less good than the same life in which he had a variety of tasty
breakfasts and lunches?

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I wonder if his attitude to music was similar.
Graham