![]() Types are not yet solved but I have had all sorts of ideas which seem to me very fundamental. Whatever happens don’t forget me! Yours ever most, etc. But I still hope that this won’t come true. I very often now have the indescribable feeling as though my work was all sure to be lost entirely in some way or other. If you’ve nothing better to do, do write to me how you are, etc. My address for the next 3 weeks shall be: Hotel Öistensjö, Öistensjö, Norway. Pray for me! If you see the Whiteheads please remember me to them. However I am not losing courage and go on thinking. Shall I get anything out?! It would be awful if I did not and all my work would be lost. We have hired a little sailing boat and go about with it on the fiord, or rather Pinsent is doing all the sailing and I sit in the boat and work. ![]() Pinsent is an enormous comfort to me here. ![]() ![]() However I don’t think that will in any way affect the Bipolarity business which still seems to me to be absolutely untangible. There are still some very difficult problems (and very fundamental ones too) to be solved and I won’t begin to write until I have got some sort of a solution for them. I am sitting here in a little place inside a beautiful fiord and thinking about the beastly theory of types. – My reason for not seeing you oftener last term was, that I did not wish our intercourse to continue without any sign that you wished to continue it. Thanks very much for the trouble you take over my business. I will leave Vienna on Saturday the 25th and will be in Cambridge either on Sunday night or Monday morning. ![]() He had the most beautiful death that I can imagine without the slightest pains and falling asleep like a child! I did not feel sad for a single moment during all the last hours, but most joyful and I think that this death was worth a whole life. My dear father died yesterday in the afternoon. He was left to his own devices, and in his letters with luminaries like Bertrand Russell, John Maynard Keynes and George Edward Moore, he hints at the machinations involved in the greatest philosophical mind of his century. His time at Cambridge brought security and stability to his career he was often treated with kid gloves by an understanding administration. Ludwig was most certainly gay, most definitely eccentric, and intellectually demanding beyond all measure. The short correspondence of Ludwig Wittgenstein retains a certain zest. ![]()
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