In the morning before eating, you’re on the defensive, you manage somehow not to know things you really do know.
[Simone de Beauvoir]

Today’s bit of “Gestures Toward a Theology of Sleep.”

“3. Bertrand Russell once said of Wittgenstein, “He says every morning he begins his work with hope, and every evening he ends in despair.” I’ve always wanted to know, what happened to him at night?”