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End ch 8

p 254 surprising analogy btw modernism & logic, badly scanned

the deeper human purposes that it was the functio
novel techniques to serve have too often been ignored if
orgotten. So, poetic techniques and forms have become more
pportant than poetic expression, the construction of quasi-
Systems of inductive logic more important than
and style more important than

Uh oh:

P. 248: From this time on, aesthetic judgement was to be the prime concern, not of an individual patron (be he bishop or archduke) nor of the great bourgeois public. Instead, artists would have the opportunity to organize their own affairs …

Finished ch 7, looked at https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/19/ar...

Started ch 7, e.g. Haus Wittgenstein

P. 191 The evidence that Wittgenstein’s aim in the Tractatus was as much ethical as logical cannot, accordingly, be looked for within the book itself.

The book’s point is an ethical one…. plus all I have _not_ written. And it is precisely this second part that is the important one.