אלו דברים למוצ"ש פרשת פנחס תשפ"ה

 כותב ריי מונק בתחילת פרק שנקרא "האמת שלא ניתנת להדפסה" The Unprintable Truth בביוגרפיה שכתב על ויטגנשטיין שנקראת :Ludwig Wittgenstein The Duty of Genius את הדברים הבאים:

"Like many war veterans before and since, Wittgenstein found it almost insuperably difficult to adjust to peace-time conditions. He had been a soldier for five years, and the experience had left an indelible stamp upon his personality. He continued to wear his uniform for many years after the war, as though it had become a part of his identity, an essential part, without which he would be lost. It was also perhaps a symbol of his feeling  - which persisted for the rest of his life - that he belonged to a past age. For it was the uniform of a force that no longer existed. Austria-Hungary was no more, and the country he returned to  in the summer of 1919 was itself undergoing a painful process of adjustment. Vienna, once the imperial centre of a dynasty controlling the lives of fifty million subjects of mixed race, was now the capital of a small, impoverished and insignificant Alpine republic of little more than six million, mostly German inhabitants."

Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein The Duty of Genius, Vintage Books, p. 169