Like a cyclist I have to keep pedalling, to keep moving, in order not to fall down

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I visited the Million Year Picnic earlier tonight; I had just been discussing Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005–2008) and, being reminded of how much I loved that show, thought I would finally check out some of the comics. Sadly, I cannot afford to buy any of the complete arcs right now, especially not the nice hardcover editions. So I went to browse Raven Used Books to console myself and seem to have ended up with a biography of Wittgenstein.

This is my life.

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You don't see people creating novels, poems, paintings, and music about other twentieth-century philosophers.

Bertrand Russell gets a very highly regarded graphic novel: Logicomix (2008), by Apostolos Doxiadis et al. I'm sure I'd find other examples if I thought about it for a moment. But last night I decided to test Monk's assertion against the internet, and even working within the limitations of what has been digitized or published online, there are a lot of Wittgenstein poems. There's even a Wittgenstein ghost poem that I didn't write!

Chris Wallace-Crabbe, "Wittgenstein's Shade"

Guy Davenport, "Wittgenstein"

David Lehman, "Wittgenstein's Ladder"

Richard Murphy, "The Philosopher and the Birds"

Peter Porter, "Wittgenstein's Dream"

Andrew Sofer, "Wittgenstein in Norway"

Rachel Wetzsteon, "Cabaret Ludwig"

David Solway's "Wittgenstein at Chess" is available only incompletely on Google Books, so I'll have to track down the collection itself to read the ending.

Google Books also gave me a tantalizing reference for Niall McDevitt's "Wittgenstein in Ireland," which I cannot get online. It's dedicated to Karl Johnson, Jarman's incredible Wittgenstein (and Ariel, which is another conversation). That really makes me curious.

The Wittgenstein-Jarman-Taaffe connection is especially excellent.

Thank you. It's made me very happy.

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This collection is pretty dang amazing.