Wherever We Are When We Come To The End – reference list

This is a full list of extracts from primary sources in Wherever We Are When We Come To The End, intended to supplement the short list of explanatory notes in the published volume. I have not included passing references or allusions – in one sense the whole poem is an allusion to the Tractatus – but if you notice any substantial quotations not cited here or in the volume please let me know and I’ll add them to the list. References are listed by page and propositional number in the poem, and employ the following abbreviations:

Tractatus: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1922], translated by DF Pears & BF McGuinness, Routledge, 1961.

Notebooks: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks 1914-16, edited by GH von Wright & GEM Anscombe, translated by GEM Anscombe, Harper & Brothers, 1961.

Diary / Letters: Wittgenstein’s wartime diary and correspondence, as cited in Bryan McGuinness, Wittgenstein: A Life: Young Ludwig, 1889-1921, University of California Press, 1988, or the ‘Wittgenstein Chronology’ website.

Pinsent: GH von Wright, A Portrait of Wittgenstein as a Young Man: From the Diary of David Hume Pinsent, 1912-14, Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Artillery: US General Staff War Plans Division, Artillery Firing, War Department Document N. 808, Washington Government Printing Office, 1918.

p 9, proposition 1: adapted from Notebooks, 8 Jul 1916.

p 9, proposition 1.01: adapted from Notebooks, 29 Jul 1916.

p 9, proposition 1.111, second line: Tractatus 2.1.

p 9, interjection after proposition 1.1111: Letters, LW to Paul Engelmann, 9 Apr 1917.

p 10, propositions 1.02-1.21: adapted from Artillery, various pages.

p 10, proposition 1.211, second line: adapted from Tractatus 6.4311.

p 11, proposition 1.221, second line: attributed to Augustine of Hippo.

p 11, proposition 1.3, first line: adapted from Notebooks, 11 June 1916, second line: Diary, 13 Oct 1914.

p 11, interjection after proposition 1.31, second line: Letters, LW to Paul Engelmann, 9 Apr 1917.

p 12, interjection after proposition 1.3: adapted from a remark made to LW by the Italian philosopher Piero Sraffa.

p 13, proposition 1.43, second line: from LW’s 1918 preface to the Tractatus.

p 13, proposition 1.44, first line: Letters, LW to Paul Engelmann, 20 Aug 1920.

p 13, proposition 2: Notebooks, 15 April 1915.

p 13, proposition 2.01: first line: Tractatus 3.03; second line: Tractatus 6.1251.

p 14, proposition 2.0112, first line: Notebooks, 18 Jun 1915.

p 15, proposition 2.4, first line: Notebooks, 2 Sept 1916.

p 15, proposition 2.41: adapted from Notebooks, 1 Nov 1914.

p 15, proposition 2.42: Notebooks, 6 Nov 1914.

p 15, proposition 2.422, second line: Tractatus 2.02.

p 15, proposition 2.51: first line: Tractatus, 6.373; second line: Notebooks, 8 Jul 1916.

p 16, proposition 2.53, first line: adapted from Diary, 25 Oct 1914.

p 16, proposition 2.541, second line: from the Haggadah, the Jewish liturgy for the Passover feast.

p 16, proposition 2.542: Tractatus 6.41.

p 16, proposition 2.55: adapted from Notebooks, 13 Aug 1916.

p 17, interjection after proposition 3.1, first line: adapted from Tractatus 5.64.

p 17, proposition 3.2: adapted from Diary, 2 Nov 1914.

p 17, proposition 3.3: adapted from Diary, 5 Sept 1914.

p 17, proposition 3.31: adapted from Diary, 3 Oct 1914.

p 18, proposition 3.421, second line: Notebooks, 21 Aug 1914.

p 20, proposition 4.212: Tractatus 5.153.

p 20, proposition 4.22: first line, Notebooks, 15 Oct 1916; second line: Tractatus 3.02.

p 21, interjection after proposition 4.311: from Leo Tolstoy’s The Gospel in Brief (1902).

p 21, second interjection after proposition 4.23: adapted from a traditional description of the Christian practice of lectio divina.

p 22, propositions 4.411-4.414: adapted from Artillery, various pages.

p 23, proposition 4.52: adapted from Diary, 23 Apr 1916.

p 24, proposition 4.81, first line: Diary, 13 Oct 1914.

p 24, proposition 5.01, first line: Notebooks, 4 Mar 1915.

p 25, proposition 5.3: first line: Tractatus 6.4312; second and third lines: Tractatus 6.5.

p 25, proposition 5.31, first line: Tractatus 5.6.

p 25, proposition 5.321, fourth line: Tractatus 6.4321.

p 26, proposition 5.6: adapted from Tractatus 5.6.

p 26, proposition 5.62, second line: Tractatus 6.41.

p 26, proposition 5.7, second line: Tractatus 6.36311.

p 27, proposition 5.72, first line: Notebooks, 12 Oct 1916.

p 28, proposition 5.9: Tractatus 6.43.

p 28, interjection after proposition 5.9: Pinsent, DHP to LW, 14 Sept 1916.

p 28, proposition 6.0111: Notebooks, 27 May 1915.

p 29, proposition 6.12, first line: Notebooks, 19 April 1915.

p 29, proposition 6.221: second line, adapted from Notebooks, 2 Sept 1916; third line: Letters, LW to Bertrand Russell, 6 Aug 1920.

p 31, proposition 7: Tractatus 1.