We should get him a custom wallet.
A Bad Wittgenstein wallet would be so cool.
Well, to Wittgenstein, those are the same.
I'm embarassed to admit that in my youth I once sported one of those "Bad Motherfucker" wallets. To make it even better, it was one of those wallet-on-a-chain deals.
I also tried swing dancing.
What was the problem? Was the wallet on a chain swinging around and hitting your partner?
It's where the cryptic and their hangers-on go to take the waters.
There's a similar story about Wittgenstein) in a Tom Stoppard play, Jumpers:
Meeting a friend in a corridor, Wittgenstein said: 'Tell me, why do people always say it was natural for men to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?' His friend said, 'Well, obviously, because it just looks as if the sun is going round the earth.' To which the philosopher replied, 'Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as if the earth was rotating?'
I'm extremely fond of the story, whether or not it's true.
and it does sound very much like w-lfs-n.
LB, presuming you aren't, wherefor are you not doing interviews for your firm at NYU's early interview week?
w/d -- I'm still pretty new here. I just started in January, after moving from an itty-bitty litigation boutique. Goodness knows who does the on-campus interviewing, but presumably someone with more than a year at the firm.
That doesn't seem like a good enough reason to not have what I assert would have been the first ocassion in history of one person who only knows another via blog commenting being unintentionally assigned to interview that person. Of course, I don't know how many interviewers your firm is sending, so there's some chance it wouldn't have happened anyway.
15: Actually, on a couple of my job interviews people who I'd never met told me that they'd read my blog... though I guess in most cases we didn't really know each other via blog since I didn't know they were reading it, and it wasn't entirely unintentional since they knew about the blog when they decided to interview me, and since the blog was (at the time, at least) related to the field it really doesn't count. um, never mind.
Anyway, if you end up interviewing here, I'll give you tips about anyone I know (which, given the six-months thing and all, isn't everyone.)
Be careful: reading too much Wittgenstein can be dangerous!