I’ve recently read Bertrand Russell’s Autobiography and also Duffy’s The World as I Found It, about him and Wittgenstein. Russell was so focused, competent, determined, rational! But Wittgenstein, tormented and unbiddable, was cooler and maybe even more brilliant, and it drove Russell crazy.

Hard not to see this as McCartney and Lennon.

For better or worse, I am a Russell, a McCartney.

[12 May 2026]