My God does Alan Saunders think he's important.
All those pregnant pauses between significant words like "the"; pronounced "thee::::".
The in-breath to announce he's about to say something momentous -- even if his interlocutor beats him to the turn!
The intonation that swings up and down: all measured and paced and nuanced.
It almost puts me off listening.
Perhaps it should be re-titled The Cretin[']s['] Zone?
So struggling through today's episode, I learned a fair bit about Wittgenstein's family.
Seems they were all nutcases -- rich nutcases who could hardly stand one another.
Lutz himself, I heard, did not understand his own first book, the Tractatus.
But then the interviewee was Alexander Waugh and he should know all about fucked-up families.
Waugh didn't mention that, some 38 years after his death, Lutz made an extremely important contribution to world culture.
This:
