Word: wittgenstein
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...student gave the mug to him, he explains. The two small figurines on another corner of the desk are part of a Wittgenstein joke reference comprehensible only to those in the know, but the humor of a nearby Citizen Goldfarb book, the self-published autobiography of an obscure industrialist, is self-explanatory...
...lives in an apartment 10 minutes away from the Yard and walks to work. He takes time off from both activism and scholarship to hike and listen to a 500-strong CD collection, which is heavy on the Romantic composers. He reads Wittgenstein and the occasional contemporary gay fiction. He cooks Indian food...
...functioning hands would seem to be the minimum basic requirement for a concert career, but fortunately musical history says otherwise. When the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, brother of the philosopher Ludwig, lost his right arm serving with the Austrian army in World War I, he reacted with logical positivism: he commissioned several leading composers to write works for the left hand alone...
...Fleisher has put Wittgenstein's and his own misfortune to good use, playing three of the pieces commissioned by the Austrian. The Ravel Concerto in D Major is so powerfully conceived and artfully composed that its limitation is hardly apparent; in many ways it is superior to the same composer's two-handed Concerto in G Major. Fleisher digs into the dark, angst- ridden work, plumbing its depths with the unimpaired musical intelligence that has always marked his playing. (Would that his accompanists, Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony, were on the same wavelength.) He sprints through Prokofiev's steely...
Furthermore, this imbroglio underscores a more central issue. We are as concerned as you are about the inherent prejudices of language. But as Wittgenstein noted, all words impose arbitrary categorical limitations on the nominal world...