/lit/ - Literature

>"He [Wittgenstein] walked into the room carrying a heavy noose held awkwardly aloft in his right hand. "None shall leave this room until someone hangs themselves!" he declared. "I wish to see someone hanged!" My wife fainted right away and the rest of the guest were in uproar, attempting to dissuade him, to calm him down. But he would have none of it. He secured the noose to the chandelier, shrugging off those who gingerly attempted to console him, and propped a stool underneath. "There now. Who will it be?" His eyes flashed with a transcendent irritation. "Myself?" he mused after a bated silence. "Yes!, myself! Myself it is!" and he stuck his head through the loop. I and Mr. Freglanka had to rush to take hold of his lower half and lift him from his fatal situation. The next day he was as chipper as ever, observing how he ad been 'refreshed' by the 'absurdities' of the previous night. Such was his temperament in those days." -Norman Malcolm, in Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir (1966), p. 46

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>logical positivism
>main proponent was gay