Glen Baxter & Wittgenstein
My favourite cartoonist.
http://www.glenbaxter.com/frameset/frameset.html
Here's one of my favourite examples, the sceptics motto:
“The difficult thing is to comprehend the lack of foundation of our belief”. I'm showing off here. Glen Baxter is relatively free with his e-mail address, so I asked him where the quote came from. He told me it was from Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”. Although my spoken German is on the hesitant side, I can read it pretty well. I therefore bought the book, and struggled through it – no trace of the quote! In fact, it’s from a different Wittgenstein book, “Über Gewißheit” – a much easier read. Glen Baxter also says that Leeds is in Belgium.
I'd like to put up some books from Amazon.de but currently Vox doesn't have a link to it. Interestingly, when I bought the (right) book from them it was one of those with a built in bookmark, and someone had placed the mark on the right page for the quote!
