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Ep 546 - Wittgenstein's Mistress, by David Markson

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What Is the Point of the Thing?

"I just, i struggle with this kind of thought experiment where you get where everything leads like six degrees from nileism," she says. "You're never more than a couple of thoughts away from nothing matters... Who cares? And that makes it hard to get sted in the thing." The book is about someone who perceives a world in which they can no longer connect to any other living thing. It doesn't necessarily say to me that nothing matters,. But it does say that true communication and relationships are very, very difficult, if at all possible.

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