There’s a story I love about Wittgenstein listening to Beethoven’s op. 131 string quartet in Cambridge. I think it’s about this moment from the last movement. (Shown orchestrated because I love Bernstein’s conducting here so much). The story goes: (1/n)

“I once put on”, King writes, “Beethoven’s Quartet in C sharp minor, op. 131. ... [Wittgenstein] was rapt in his attention and most excited at the end of the playing. He jumped up as if something had suddenly struck him and said, ‘How easy it is to think that you understand what Beethoven is saying’ (2/n)

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