Sunday, July 29, 2012

Fighting on opposite sides of a war makes for strange letters between friends...

Keynes to Wittgenstein in 1915 (who was fighting for Austria-Hungary):

"I hope you have been safely taken prisoner by now"

They apparently had to exchange letters through a post office in Switzerland.

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