31. Ludwig Wittgenstein

1. Ludwig Wittgenstein is a poet for me.

2. Wittgenstein’s last words Tell them that I’ve had a wonderful life are the beginning of a wonderful path that I myself have taken in my youth. I just saw that Wittgenstein’s lectures have been attended by young Alan Turing and that Wittgenstein as a fourteen year old went in the same class as Adolf Hitler.

3. For Ludwig I made one flower.

4. 4. WILLIAM BLAKE, LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN AND WIND
   2nd walk
   Seven white roses on Wittgenstein’s grave. Early evening is cold. Somebody brings roses all the time. Early evening is coming. I was standing for a long time on Ludwig’s grave. The Rose has started, first petal is curving. I’m holding this notebook and writing bended. My hands are cold. I’m standing. To be good in this world. To open up to the earth to feed me.
   Cambridge, 10. 11. 1991.
   from the first book Rose of wondering

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