[lit-ideas] Re: Musical and mathematical diversion
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- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 08:21:07 +0200
The missing link:
On 7. Jul 2020, at 00:54, I wrote:
... Philosophically-inclined list members will of course recognize Königsberg
as the resident city of Immanuel Kant ...[a]nd list members with a
particularly long memory for obscure list arcana will recall that ... the
city of Kiel is 'twinned' with Kaliningrad. ...
In the year 1946 The city of Königsberg was renamed Kaliningrad - as the
notorious Roger Scruton (ever one to put the rhetorical boot in as forcefully
as possible) noted in his introductory book on Kant, 'after one of the few of
Stalin's henchmen to die of natural causes.'
As there is ample material (in Wikipedia for a start) about
Königsberg/Kaliningrad, Kalinin and (the reasons why I label) Scruton (as
notorious), I will leave further excavation of historical material as an
exercise for the reader.
Chris Bruce,
in Kiel, Germany
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