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Ep. 4 A Bloody Curious Bird Is My Problem

Dear Old Blood: Notes on a Wittgenstein Noir
Dear Old Blood: Notes on a Wittgenstein Noir
Episode • Dec 5, 2023 • 24m

In this episode of Horace Murgatroyd's reading of the so-called Wittgenstein 'noir', the private investigator Nix meets his nemesis, Lan, now in the guise of a torch singer. The mystery deepens with the appearance of a 'bloody curious bird'. End notes include:

  • Wittgenstein's musical tastes
  • Gestalt theory
  • King Lear
  • Karl Popper
  • Norbert Davis' Rendezvous with Fear
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Anti-philosophy


All copyright: Neil Fitzgerald


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