Wittgenstein wasn’t some obscure returning Cambridge student. On the contrary, from 1911 until just before the outbreak of the First World War, he had studied there with Russell and had quickly become a cult figure, known for both his obvious brilliance and his waywardness. “Well, God has arrived, I met him on the 5:15 train,” John Maynard Keynes wrote in a letter dated January 18, 1929.
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