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![textual part of Eduardo Paolozzi, “Wittgenstein at the Cinema Admires Betty Grable” 1965
Wittgenstein was always exhausted by his lectures. He was also revolted by
them. He felt disgusted with what he had said and with himself. Often he
would rush off to a cinema immediately after the class ended. As the
members of the class began to move their chairs out of the room he might
look imploringly at a friend and say in a low tone, "Could you go to a flick?"
On the way to the cinema Wittgenstein would buy a bun or a cold pork pie
and munch it while he watched the film. He insisted on sitting in the very first
row of seats, so that the screen would occupy his entire field of vision, and
his mind would be turned away from the thoughts of the lecture and his
feelings of revulsion. Once he whispered to me "This is like a shower bath!"
His observation of the film was not relaxed or detached. He leaned tensely
forward in his seat and rarely took his eyes off the screen. He hardly ever
uttered comments on the episodes of the film and did not like his companion
to do SO. He wished to become totally absorbed in the film no matter how
trivial or artificial it was, in order to free his mind temporarily from the
philosophical thoughts that tortured and exhausted him [...] 27](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4ipimtycqe4ygljjb5tnw3it/bafkreiewky5nlshjgmdlq3xsgketewp3jhnzob5maagd6ep2i3ow7vtyuu)
