Tractatus: Caliban Reads Wittgenstein

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(1.1)            The world's the total sum of all the facts,

                        which means a poor account of human

                           acts:

(1.2)            into lone atoms logic will divide

                        the world, cool as a parent who has lied.

(2.0131)   To make out rouge from sanguine is to

                           see.

                        This thing of darkness I acknowledge me.

(3.144)      As speech provides us with scant means to

                           name

                     our situations, whom are we to blame

(5.632)    for our estrangement from the lives we

                           live,

                     the soundwaves, odors, weight, the face

                           you love?

(6.43)         Only the line between good luck and bad

                     sunders the bitter outlook from the glad.

(7.01)       The words you lately left me to rehearse

                     taught me to make a playground of a curse.

Chris Yu