[lit-ideas] Re: The Life and Death of Wittgenstein
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 16:22:50 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Fri, 15/5/09, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Life and Death of Wittgenstein
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, 15 May, 2009, 5:05 PM
> In a message dated 5/15/2009 8:51:58
> A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx
> writes:
> Of course we can widen the idea of "experience"
> further so that we do
> "experience" growing hair, nails etc.
>
> ----
>
> Quite an unfortunate example, if you ask me.
>
> Surely Wittgenstein _grew_ hair and nails _after he
> died_.
This is a myth: both hair and nails do not grow after death (they appear to in
movies - but that is for effect). They can appear to have grown (perhaps the
origin of the myth) because of bodily and skin shrinkage after death - so that
nails, which do not shrink, appear longer once a corpse has shrunk.
Donal
Prof Of Gravedigging
Dept of Old Wives Tales
Queer Street
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