Jennifer Senior plucks up this quote from Wittgenstein in her review of Madeleine Thien's Do Not Say We Have Nothing ( NYT , 10/23/16), "the strength of the individual is wasted through the overcoming of opposing forces & frictional resistances." Thien's novel concerns the plight of classical musicians during China's Cultural Revolution, but the Wittgenstein quote is timeless. If only Donald Trump...

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