The Card Players – Christopher Wood
The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself continually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors. And the man who wishes to remain faithful to justice must make himself continually unfaithful to inexhaustibly triumphant injustices
Charles Péguy, in Bar Cochebas
Time's Flow Stemmed 
Reading Ray Monk’s bio of Wittgenstein – strikes me that “The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity” could have been said by Wittgenstein, Speaking of Vienna (as if we were) how fares your reading of Musil?
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By Wittgenstein, and of Wittgenstein. Monk’s Wittgenstein is an old favourite.
I fell out of stride with Musil in early summer but do intend to return to it, perhaps in the winter.
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Just a brief FYI: Thomas Bernhard refers to a great many writers in his works, few of whom he seems to have read with any particular attention, but Péguy was a real favorite of his.
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I’ve yet to read Péguy in any depth but the few bits I’ve seen look very interesting.
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