Greek Food, James, Wittgenstein and Kafka Review

The weekend has been good in so many ways and not so in other more personal matters.

A friend and I had dinner on Saturday night in Collingwood, an old section of Melbourne at a famous Greek restaurant that has been in business for 30 years. The restaurant did not have one empty table and our old Greek waiter’s accent thick and authentic. As I’m not familiar with the Greek dishes, naming them all would be impossible. However we started with a fried cheese dish which was absolutely gorgeous followed by a spicy selection of King Prawns. My favourite of the night was the thinly sliced lamb and onions, and to be honest, should be considered the best lamb on the planet. We washed these beautiful dishes down with a moderately priced Cabernet, served in small cups and two carafes’ of ice water. We finished the meal with two cups of Greek coffee which is known to be quite thick and flavourful.

The night was cool though not cold and the city was teeming with people.

Currently reading “Wittgenstein and William James by Russell B. Goodman: the piece is a philosophical analysis comparing the thoughts and connections of these two great philosophers. It is well known that Wittgenstein had few books on his shelf, Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and William James’ The Variety of Religious Experience. Wittgenstein mentioned at least twice that this book helped him in many ways, as he considered James to be a real Human Being. I suppose one should be familiar with James’ Pragmatism & Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to really appreciate Goodman’s arguments, however, I’m finding the book extremely worthwhile.

In the afternoon watched a somewhat lame horror film on cable, “Darkness”, that was extremely slow in the beginning and the end, convoluted and vague. The film seemed to have so much potential to then fall apart.

Finally completed my short story, “A Spit in the Wind’, about an older woman’s endless attempts at finding love, only to attract vulgar men who never seem to grow up. In the end, decided against publishing the piece on this BLOG, as the story could well be misconstrued by those familiar with my personal life.

As I’ve been reading Kafka’s diaries, (see last BLOG entry) and have been for some time now, wrote a review of the book on Amazon.com, bringing my total reviews to 340…Onwards and upwards and never look back.

Note: Image is of the Philosopher William James
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