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David Edmonds on Wittgenstein's Poker

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How Did You Get Your First Book?

It's still the book that has far outsold every single one of my other books. I remember going through lewton airport a few months after it was published and seeing the book piled high in the airport bookshop. And you even got an indorsement from vil clinton. We had some nice endorsements from nobel prize winning novelists to politicians. There's at least three accounts i have of him talking up the book. And i joke i put him on commission. So why do you think the book was so popular? This is obviously n exaggeration, but almost every minute of witkenstein's life has been chronicled. It's easy to write about victinsand he

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