Wittgenstein's birthday and other trivia

The Writer's Almanac informed me this morning that today is Wittgenstein's birthday. Of course I thought of sovay , occasional sufferer of the morose whisperings of a tiny, shoulder-sitting version of the philosopher.

Did you know, though, sovay , that not one, not two, but three of his siblings (he was one of nine children) committed suicide? So there was something in the Wittgenstein family well that was not doing anyone any favors.

Today must have been a good day for philosophers, because it i...