On Jun 10, 3:20 am, "valley" > wrote:
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> On Jun 7, 11:37 am, Paul Grieg > wrote:
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> > 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).
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> > > What a miserable sod he must have been!
> > > Graham
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> > 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.
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> 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

It was simple in that he didn't like anyone after Brahms, and even in
him he detected "the sound of machines". He preferred Mozart and
Beethoven. But he was forever bolting down his cheese sandwiches and
rushing to Cambridge classisal music performances. See if he'd got out
his cookbook he'd have missed the music, thereby replacing the
essential with the trivial.